Civil War causes review Flashcards
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Great Britain support
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- Britain formally remains neutral
- South thinks they will defend them because of Southern dependence for cotton
- so, Union blockades southern naval ports
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The Crittenden compromise
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- set of proposals put by Kentucky senator after Lincoln elected that would make it almost impossible for Congress to ever abolish slavery
- made to try to help secession crisis and meet southern demands but ultimately rejected by lincoln
- fixed boundary of slave states, fugitive slave law, popular sovereignty, etc
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Lincoln-Douglas debates
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- debates between Stephen Douglas and Lincoln for Illinois senator
- slavery and popular sovereignty, slavery morality, dred Scott case
- increases lincoln’s popularity
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Freeport doctrine
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- politcal ideology that stated that the people of a territory could decide whether to allow slavery based on popular soverignty
- response to dred Scott case and endorsed by Douglas
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dred Scott case
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- slave taken to free territory and sued for freedom
- Congress states that Scott could not use bc he wasn’t a citizen and won’t be considered one
- Congress has no authority to ban slavery from federal territories
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Harpers Ferry and John Brown
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- John Brown is a radical abolitionist who led a raid on a federal army in Herpers Ferry, Virginia
- goal of initiating slave rebellion and establishing a free state for former slaves
- makes south scared of slave rebellions
- increased southern militia
7
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John Brown and Pottawatomie creek
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John Brown led a group that killed 5 pro-slavery settlers in response to the sacking of lawrence, Kansas, and anti-slave town
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Bleeding kansas
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- Kansas-Nebraska at allows Kansas settlers to decide if slavery by popular soverignty
- strong sides of pro and anti slavery so “free staters” and “border ruffians” fight
- sacking of lawrence Kansas where pro slavery forces attack
- sectional divide but eventually entered Union as free state
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lecompton constitution
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- drafted to make Kansas a slave state when it joined the union
- protects right of slavery and prohibits free blacks from living in kansas
- voting was rigged and favored pro slavery
- rejected because of anti-slave boycotters
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Mexican war
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- Texas declared independent
- opts to join US and president Polk also wants it buut when tries to annex, Mexico sees this as an act of war
- ends with takign hald of Mexico for 18 million
- conflict over whether these were free or slave states
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Kansas Nebraska act
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- Missouri compromise to have balance
-repealed by Kansas nebraska which said white residents of Kansas and Nebraska would vote on whether to be slave state - ## attempt at compromise that failed
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wilmot proviso
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- Pennsylvania proposes for slavery ban in all Mexican war acquired land
- passed in house but rejected by senate
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Republican party and the platform of 1860
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- republican party begins in 1854 in opposition to slavery expansion
- 1860 platform says that freedom is the natural condition everywhere, opposes sale of land=d like homestead act, endorses transcontinental railroad, slave states have right to slavery
- slavery expansion opposition
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Sumner Brooks
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- Charles Sumner of Massachusetts gives anti slavery speech called crime against kansas
- Brooks of South Carolina takes offense, beats Sumner with cane
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Uncle Tom’s cabin
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- anti slavery novel that shaped public opinion
- shows harsh realities of slavery
