Civil War Flashcards
The Missouri Compromise
1820
Everyone knew that slavery was a huge problem in the US that caused a lot of hatred, bitterness, and arguments
Conquering the West: is it gonna be free or slave?
Anything above the line dissecting the US in half is gonna be free
Anything below the line will be slave states
Calmed people down for a little while
Mason Dixon line separated PA and MD
Nat Turner
Worst fear of a slave owner would be to have their throats slit by their slaves
Rebellion was suicidal
Most successful rebel-killed 48 whites
Plan was to kill the owners, free the slaves, and arm the slaves
No mercy
Virginia
Army of thousands from many dif Southern states caught him, tortured him, and killed him
#1 Story that he rode by a family of white people and just kept going because they weren’t slave owners and they didn’t cause him harm
#2 Murdered a family of slave owners, heard a baby crying upstairs, and ordered his men to murder it
Fredrick Douglas
Martin Luther King of the 1800s
Maryland
Ex-slave who escaped and became the leading spokesperson for the Abolition movement
After the war he became the leading Civil Rights spokesperson
Gave speeches, wrote books, South hated him, North loved him
Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
From the Eastern shore Ex-slave Became most known conductor of the underground railroad Time after time helped over 200 people escape Bounty of $40,000 on her head South called her a terrorist North loved her No one ever caught her Wasn’t underground and wasn’t a railroad Secret codes and places to hide White people helped Headed for Canada or Mexico was slavery was illegal
The Compromise of 1850
Congress trying to create a law to calm things down and poor water over the fire that is the hatred between the N and S
Does four things in the compromise:
California= Free
New Mexico, Utah, and Texas could be slave states
No more slaves sold in D.C. (you can own them but you can’t sell them)
Fugitive Slave Act passed
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Novel based on fact, a great book
Made people sign up for the Abolition movement
Humanized the experience for the slave
Pointed out how horrible slavery was
Kansas Nebraska Act
Repealed the Missouri Compromise
Victory for the South because they could now vote in 1857 to have slaves in Kansas or Nebraska
Bleeding Kansas
People from around the country decided to go to Kansas and lie that they were born and raised in Kansas
Before, during, and after the vote they started shooting each other
Civil war before the civil war
Neither accepted slavery
Dred Scott
Top 20 Supreme Court cases in US history
Had abolitionists help
Slave owner would take him around the East coast to states where slavery was illegal
His premise was that he shouldn’t be a slave if there isn’t slavery in the North
Told him he was property and that they didn’t care where he went even if it was a free state
Also told him to never ever use the Supreme Court or any other court because he wasn’t considered a citizen
John Brown VA
White Nat Turner
Wanted to go to Harper’s Ferry to steal guns, free the slaves and then arm the slaves one plantation at a time
Sweep through the South
Angry townspeople rose up
Never freed one slave or even got out of town
Robert E. Lee arrested him
The Election of 1860
Lincoln won the election
Felt sorry for African Americans but wouldn’t invite them to dinner
South states started to secede due to his win
Didn’t want slavery to expand out West
11 states decided to leave and wanted to start their own country called the Confederate States of America
Lincoln said No
Lincoln sent thousands of soldiers down South to link them together again
Strength to say no to the South
If Lincoln hadn’t said no slavery may have lasted till the late 1800s
Fort Sumter
Start of the Civil War Charleston, SC NYC troops dressed in blue in the fort Southerners tell the New Yorkers to get out of the fort because they are their own country Cannonballs shot at the fort Surrendered the fort to the Southerners
Seccessionists
Joke that the Southerners were inflicted with the disease called Secessionitis
Border states are with the Union but allowed to keep their slaves
Confederate States of America
Fort Sumter started the war and created the CSA
Had their own money, flag, and unofficial anthem
