Unit 9 and 10 Flashcards
Causes of the Civil War
✔ Slavery – North opposed, South supported.
✔ States’ Rights – The South wanted more power.
✔ Election of 1860 – Lincoln won → Southern states seceded.
✔Succession
✔Sectionalism- Different economic interests, and political views led to increased tensions.
✔Tariffs.
Missouri Compromise of 1820
It tried to balance the amount of free and slave states.
Setting the boundary at 36°30′ parallel.
Limiting slavery in the North
Missouri Compromise of 1850:
Slave trade banned in Washington D.C
California was admitted as a free state.
Stronger Fugitive Slave Law
Popular sovereignty in the remainder of the Mexican Cession.
Nebraska Act
-Repealed both compromises.
-Allowed the people to decide if the state should ban slavery or allow it. (popularly sovereignty)
IT ELIMINATED the restriction on slavery.
-It divided the remaining of the Louisiana Purchase.
-Since Kansas was going to vote for slavery, both the pro and anti-slavery groups rushed in settlers to vote.
-As a result, there were violent fights. This was known as “Bleeding Kansas.”
Fort Sumter (1861) – First battle.
Why: After Lincoln’s presidential election, states begin to secede from the Union. There was a fort controlled by the Union, but it was on the property of the Confederates. Therefore, the confederates demanded the Union to surrender it, but refused to. As a result, shots were fired at the fort that started the Civil War.
