Week 1 origins of the US civil war Flashcards
Between 1525-1866 how many Africans were forcibly transported to the new world?
12.5 million
what is was the middle passage and how many Africans survived it?
It was the forced voyage across the Atlantic ocean to the new world of enslaved Africans and an estimated 10.7 million survived.
What history was made August 20, 1619?
The first enslaved Africans arrive in Jamestown Virginia setting the stage for slavery in America.
During and after the American Revolution what did most northern states do?
Abolished slavery
Who invented the Cotton Gin in 1793?
Eli Whitney
What expanded as a result of the invention of the Cotton Gin?
Slavery expanded along with the “cotton boom”
The expansion of slavery predicated on the…
“Indian Removal”
To feed the labor demands of the Upper South, slave owners…
Bred and sold enslaved Africans relocating roughly 1 million through a domestic slave trade.
What was the Second Middle passage?
Was known as the domestic, or internal, slave trade in America.
What was the largest forced migrations in US history?
The second middle passage, relocating roughly 200,000 enslaved africans each decade between 1820 and 1860
By 1850 how many enslaved Africans were producing cotton in the Deep South following the “Indian removal”
1.8 million out of the 3.2 million were producing cotton hence “King Cotton”
By 1860 how many Africans were enslaved in America?
3.95 million were enslaved out of the total 4.4 million in America.
what was the 1787 US Constitution 3/5ths compromise?
It determined that three out of every five slaves was counted when determining a state’s total population for legislative representation and taxation.
Controversy over westward settlement and the balance between free and slave states resolved by prohibiting slavery from the Louisiana territory north of Missouri’s southern border
1820 Missouri Compromise
Following the Mexican-American war, a package of new laws forestalled further crisis by allowing new territories to determine legality of slavery, admitted California as a free state, banned slave trade in Washington, D.C., and passed a new Fugitive Slave Law.
1850 compromise
The abolitionist movement
was an organized effort to end the practice of slavery in the United States.
The American Colonization society was founding in 1816 and proposed…
an end to slavery by freeing those
enslaved and transporting them back to Africa
Second Great Awakening
A Protestant religious revival
movement, that gained momentum during the
1820s and inspired a more radical abolitionist
movement in the North
What was the major cause of the Civil War?
the humanitarian and economic issue of slavery
After Lincoln won the election of 1860 what did the southern states do?
They seceded which gave them opportunity to challenge slavery when it had no longer had federal protection.
What was the attempted Crittenden compromise (1861)?
Failed attempt to avoid civil war by proposing slavery never be abolished in the slave states of America.
The civil war begins on….
April 12, 1861 with the Union firing on the Fort Sumter in Charleston Bay
