Causes of the Civil War Flashcards
economy in south
based on agriculture, growing cotton, and relied on slavery
economy in north
factories, based on industry, technologically driven
the Missouri Compromise
1820= Congress decided to admit Missouri to the Union as a slave state, and Maine as a free state
-Henry Clay’s idea
Compromise of 1850
agreements made to admit California to the Union as a free state, & divided remaining land into 2 territories (New Mexico & Utah)
-decided whether to allow slavery or not through popular sovereignty
-outlawed slavery in Washington DC
-targeted fugitives from slavery
-Henry Clay’s idea
-compromise failed
Kansas-Nebraska Act
passed in 1854, abolished Missouri Compromise by allowing settlers to decide whether slavery should be legal
- Stephen A. Douglass created Kansas and Nebraska territories
Underground Railroad
led by Harriet Tubman
-wasn’t a real railroad
-a secret network of free Black and White people who helped enslaved people escape to free states and Canada
-Harriet Tubman: escaped enslavement; guided more than 300 slaves to freedom
Dred Scott decision
a supreme court decision in 1857 said that African Americans could not be citizens and the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional
Lincoln elected president
beginning of war= was about preserving the Union
end= its about slavery; he didn’t mention slavery until the end bc he wanted the southern vote
-after Gettysburg address he spoke out against slavery
-elected in 1860, reelected in 1864
Secession
a MAJOR factor towards the Civil War
-the action of formally becoming separate/independent
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
-made it clear to Northerners that enslavement was wrong/bad
Slavery
North=didn’t want slavery
South= did want slavery bc economy depended on it, they couldn’t survive without it
