The War, its Aftermath, and Its meaning Flashcards
How did presidential elections fail to prevent the war?
Different presidents with different beliefs
What did John Bell believe in regards to slavery?
No firm stand on slavery,
must keep union together
What did Stephen A. Douglas believe in regards to slavery?
Popular sovereignty: Let
the states decide
What did John C. Breckinridge believe in regards to slavery?
Preserve the Union with
slavery
What did Abe Lincoln believe in regards to slavery?
Preserve the Union, but
gradually abolish slavery
Nation cannot survive
half-slave and half-free
What case is an example of how supreme court rulings did not help to prevent the war?
The Dred Scott V. Sanford Case
Quote: Blacks “are not included, and were not intended to be included,
under the word ‘citizens’ in the Constitution, and can therefore
claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides
for and secures to citizens of the United States.”
Decision: Dred Scott is not free.
Why?: Simply going to a free territory or free state does not make you free.
Congress has no power to take property from the people, including their slaves.
How did political institutions change as a result of the war?
Increase in federal gov power
Who said “All the political sentiments I entertain have been drawn, so far as
I have been able to draw them, from the sentiments which
originated in and were given to the world from this Hall. I have
never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the
sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.”
Abraham Lincoln
Who said “Our new government is founded
upon exactly the opposite idea; its
foundations are laid, its cornerstone
rests upon the great truth, that the
negro is not equal to the white man;
that slavery — subordination to the
superior race — is his natural and
normal condition.”?
Alexander Stephens
What was the North fighting for?
Human Freedom and
Emancipation
Save American
Democracy
Preserve Union
Slavery as the root cause of the conflict.
What was the South fighting for?
Slavery as the root cause of the conflict.
Defend the “True
Constitution”
Preserve the Southern
Way of Life
Combat Northern
Aggression
Who said the following and in what document? “All persons held as slaves within
any State or designated part of a
State, the people whereof shall
then be in rebellion against the
United States, shall be then,
thenceforward, and forever free;
and the Executive Government of
the United States, including the
military and naval authority thereof,
will recognize and maintain the
freedom of such persons …”
Abraham Lincoln in the Emancipation Proclamation
What struggles did the South face during the civil war?
Lack of resources, because they did not have the same industrial power as the North
How did The Battle of Gettysburg happen?
The Battle of Gettysburg began when Confederate forces under General Robert E. Lee accidentally encountered Union troops near the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
What marked
the “high water mark” of the
Confederacy?
Union’s victory at Gettysburg
