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Pre-Civil War Summitive Flashcards

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Civil war

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A war fought within its own country

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Popular soverty

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Belief that people of an Area can legalize slavery or not

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Missouri compromise of 1820

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Compromise of 1850

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  1. California comes in as a free state
  2. Rest of west is P.S
  3. No slave trade in DC
  4. Strong fugitive slave law goes into effect
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Kansas-Nebraska act

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1854- popular soverty with Steven Dougless(IL)

People come to convince

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Bleeding Kansas

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1000s go and fight. Lots of death and injury

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Harpers Ferry

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John Brown takes over arsenal 1859. Wants to give salves weapons, hard core abolish.

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Election 1960

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Lincoln wins, split between 2 democrats

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Secession of SC

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SC leaves Union, followed by 6 other states.

  1. Can’t trust DC
  2. Slavery mo longer spreading
  3. No influence anymore
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The CSA

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Jefferson Davis- D
Creates own constitution with slavery.
Montgomery, AL is capital

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Lincoln/ Dougless debate

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Debates for senators- 1858. Focused on p.s and slavery. Dougless wins

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AbLindoln views

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Slavery- political, social, moral wrong but not an abolitionist
South- didn’t like him. He wouldn’t spread slavery, do no good. “Republican”

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Major crop of south

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Cotton

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Economy of N/S

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North: factories mostly. Dependent mostly on south, few farms here and there of vegetables and grains.
South: all plantations of cotton and Tabaco. Imports lots

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Uncle toms cabin

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HF book written by Harriet B. Stowe. Showed people harsh reality of south. Open lots of eyes, very influential.

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Dred Scott Decision

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Took place in 1856. Slave who sued for his freedom after owner died in Freestate. The supreme Court decided three things:

  1. Black people are not citizens at all
  2. Black people cannot sue because they are not citizens
  3. Congress can not deny slavery
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Balance of power

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Congress didn’t add a slave state without adding a free state. Didn’t want to make the government more cited to one area

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Joshua Glover

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Milwaukee very abolitionist. Runaway slave for Mom to Racine and lived there for two years. Citizen calls him in to police, and he goes to jail in Milwaukee. There are massive protest, with lots of the city’s population there. They decide to break Joshua Glover out of jail, and Sherman booth leads it. They get him to Canada by blowing the wall out of the prison. Sherman booth is arrested when he returns the US, but he knows the president and gets out of jail.

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Sectionalism

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An area be divided into sections based on categories

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