Causes of the Civil War Flashcards
A social reformer who wanted to end slavery
abolitionist
To withdraw membership from a group; to leave
secede
Conflict between people from the same country
civil war
Before the war
antebellum
Identifying with your section rather than the country as a whole; this divided the nation
sectionalism
An agreement
compromise
Rule by the people; Voting
popular sovereignty
1820 agreement that attempted to maintain a balance between the number of slave states and free states. It admitted Missouri as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and established a dividing line between free and slave land.
Missouri Compromise
A multi-part agreement that was meant to please the North and South. The compromise included California being admitted to the Union as a free state, the slave trade banned in Washington D.C., the creation of a new fugitive slave law, and the use of popular sovereignty in the New Mexico and Utah Territories.
Compromise of 1850
Created the Kansas territory and the Nebraska territory. Popular sovereignty would be used to help determine the future of the territory as allowing slavery or not. In Kansas, this lead to “Bleeding Kansas.”
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Nickname for the violence that occurred in territorial Kansas involving proslavery and antislavery forces.
“Bleeding Kansas”
Missouri proslavery guerillas
Bushwhackers
Kansas antislavery guerillas
Jayhawkers
Missourians that crossed into Kansas to illegally vote in the territorial elections
“Border Ruffians”
Samuel Jones, a proslavery man and sheriff of Douglas County, encouraged an attack on Lawrence after tensions had built between him and antislavery men.
A blockade was put around Lawrence.
Abolitionist KS leaders James Lane and Charles Robinson negotiated a treaty with proslavery forces to end the siege.
Wakarusa War
A government made up of the people elected by the Border Ruffians.
Bogus Legislature
When homes and businesses were burned by Sheriff Jones and his men.
Sacking of Lawrence
Abolitionist John Brown killed 5 proslavery men
Pottawattomie Creek Massacre
Eleven free-staters were kidnapped and shot at by proslavery men. 5 ended up killed, 5 wounded, and 1 escaped.
Marais des Cygnes Massacre
The court case that determined slaves were property, not citizens. It also declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.
Dred Scott v. Sandford
He led an attack on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry.
John Brown
Wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” in order to show the evils of slavery.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
He led the 400 person “Army of the North” to move to Kansas. He was one of the leaders of the Jayhawkers.
He became a Kansas Senator and Union General during the Civil War.
James Lane
The first southern state to secede from the Union.
South Carolina (Dec. 1860)
