Unit 7: Origins of the Civil War Flashcards

Question

Sumner-Brooks Affair (1856)

Answer 1

Preston's books (SC) and 5 of his friends attack Sumners (Massachusetts) with a wooden cane, and almost beats Sumners to death. Both were viewed as heroes for there side (Pro salver vs Anti-slavery)

Answer 2

An enslaved man that lived in Missouri. His owners was a travel nurse for the military, in which he took Dred Scott with him through free states. So Dred scott filed a lawsuit arguing that because the owner took him to those free states, meas he should be free... (Supreme court Ruling) -He loses but 2 things come out of it: Congress does not have a say in slavery in states and Black Americans are not citizens.

Answer 3

John Brown and his sons organized a slave rebellion in Virginia to attack a Military base storehouse (aka. Gun house). The plan was to steal the guns and give all slave guns to fight back but someone snitched and was unsucessful... John brown and his sons were killed

Answer 4

President before Lincoln, he fails to act on these issues and supported the slave power.

Answer 5

-Lincolns first Inaugural was March 1861. -He gets a small percentage of votes from the electoral college -He will not interfere with slavery in the south, however he will not allow it to be spread to the west. -With Lincoln election the south will have no more power anymore over the federal government --> South Oppresion

Answer 6

He did not have anything to do with slavery. He tried to abide by the South so the whole nation could be united. But gradually it changed to Anti-slavery.

Answer 7

The legal documents of states leaving the union--> all about slavery

Answer 8

Lincolns signs it. **Offers freedom to slaves in the confederacy*** -There were some states that were slave states but did not join confederacy, does not apply to them.

Answer 9

Outlawed slavery

Answer 10

Former slaves are citizens (Former confederate leaders could not run for office)

Answer 11

Black men are allowed to vote

Answer 12

Reintegrate the Southern states that had seceded back into the Union, address the social and economic rights of newly emancipated slaves, and establish a new political and social order in the South -But with the sun there will be rain

Answer 13

To provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans. -Even including newly built schools as well

Answer 14

A vehicle for white southern resistance to the Republican Party’s Reconstruction-era policies aimed at establishing political and economic equality for Black Americans.

Answer 15

-A political agreement that effectively ended the disputed presidential election of 1876 between Republican candidate Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel J. Tilden. The main goals: Remove federal troops from the south, appoint a souther democrat to the cabinet, and Federal funding for Internal improvements to the south.

Answer 16

Racial segregation and discrimination were widespread, particularly in the Southern United States. The name "Jim Crow" comes from a minstrel show character popular in the 19th century, and it became a colloquial term for the racial segregation laws and practices that emerged during this time.

Answer 17

a widely held but false belief or idea.

Answer 18

Confederate argument defending there point of view. Basically it the civil war was not about slavery... but was about the constitution and state rights. *Still supported slavery as a positive good*

Answer 19

Raise money to put up monuments of confederate leaders because they meant white supremacy.

Answer 20

They organized monuments as well to show there respect to confederate leaders. **They put pressure on school districts = to put more confederate stuff, that secession was right and not rebellious**