Civil War Flashcards
What was UTC about?
Slavery
Author of UTC? Impact?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Made evils of slavery of slavery understandable to people
What is the name for the southern states when they seceded?
Conferacy
What does secede mean?
To break away
What event convinced southern states to secede?
The election of president Lincoln
What was the first state to leave the union?
South Carolina
What was the importance of the Lincoln-Douglas debate?
Lincoln becomes a national figure
What happened at harpers ferry?
John brown planned to capture weapons and give them to slaves, no slaves came and he was caught and hung
What was the result of the Dred Scott case?
He lost because the judge ruled that slaves were not citizens and couldn’t sue.
What was the Kansas Nebraska act?
The people in those areas can decide whether to be a slave or free state through popular sovereignty
Who was Harriet Tubman?
An escape slave who was a conductor of the Underground Railroad
What was the fugitive slave act
The south were allowed to claim their slaves in the north. Northerners had to help.
What did the compromise of 1850 say?
- California free
- congress would not pass laws about slaves on the rest of the territory acquired by Mexico
- fugitive slave act
- no slave trade in Washington, D.C.
What was an abolitionist?
People wanted to end slavery
Why did north see slavery as an Eco. Threat?
They had to pay their workers while southerners didn’t
