Causes for the Civil War Flashcards
What was the economy in the South?
agriculture, grows crops, cotton, lots of plantations
What was the economy in the North?
manufacturing, factories, industry, technologically advanced/driven
What was the Missouri Compromise?
An agreement made by Congress in 1820 under which Missouri was admitted to the Union as a state that allowed enslavement and Maine was admitted as a state that banned enslavement.
What was the Compromise of 1850
The agreements made in order to admit California in the Union as a state in which slavery was illegal. including allowing New Mexico and Utah territories to decide whether to allow slavery through popular sovereignty. Outlawed the trade of enslaved people in Washington D.C. Created a stronger law targeting fugitives from slavery. FAILED!
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
An act passed in 1854 that created Kansas and Nebraska territories and abolished the Missouri Compromise by allowing settlers to determine whether slavery would be allowed in the new territories
Underground Railroad
led by Harriet Tubman. Not a real railroad. A secret network of free Black people and white people who helped thousands of enslaved people escape to free states and Canada
What is the Dred Scott decision?
A supreme court decision in 1857 that held that African Americans could never be citizens of the US and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional
Lincoln elected president
At the beginning he said war was about preserving the Union, but towers the end he said war was about abolishing slavery. he stayed silent about abolishing slavery at first so he would keep the Southern vote and after the Gettysburg Address he spoke out against slavery. Elected in 1860 and reelected 1864.
True or False: Secession was a MAJOR factor towards the Civil War.
true
Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Why was Uncle Tom’s Cabin written?
helped make it clear to the Northerners that enslavement was bad.
Slavery
The North didn’t want it. The South wanted it because their economy depended on it and could not survive without it.
