American History 3

By dcor8269

  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin

    • Novel
    • Harriet Tubman Stowe
    • Talked about real life experience without being biased
    • The topic was slavery and showed the people what it truly was
    • Northerners felt sympathy while the South said it was a misrepresentation

  • Dred Scott

    • No citizenship for African Americans
    • Missouri Compromise was declared Unconstitutional
    • Enslaved people were property
    • Very controversial ideals

  • Republican Party

    • Created by the Whig Party
    • Won the Election of 1856
    • Lead to the Civil War due to their beliefs

  • Kansas Nebraska Act

    • Wanted to spread slavery into West Missouri
    • Divided the territories: Kansas and Nebraska
    • Created the 36* 30’N

  • Bloody Kansas

    • The Missouri Compromise initially prohibited slavery.
    • The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed the people to decide whether or not they agreed with slavery.
    • Division of free and slave states.
    • Election fraud and claims were being fought through physical conflict.
    • Led to the Sack of Lawrence which was a pro-slavery mob.
    • People were killing each other.
    • Escalating tensions toward the civil war.

  • Election of 1856

    • This showed the ultimate division within the states and how the states were not united.
    • The core issues with slavery and “Bleeding Kansas”.
    • President Millard Fillmore raan as the American Party which did not work as it was based on anti-immigrant and Catholic ideologies.
    • This lead to the Civil war by truly showing the division within the country. James Buchanan - Democrat John C. Fremont - Republican Party Millard Fillmore - American Party

  • LeCompton Constitution

    • Drafted by the people who wanted slavery in Kansas
    • Kansas was wanted as a slave state; no rights for colored people
    • Anti-slavery group protested and got this rejected by Congress

  • Brooks-Sumner Incident

    Caused by the Sumner s speech
    - Beating and Nationally a violent event that was fought

  • House Divided Speech

    • House divided to show how much slavery was dividing the country
    • Threat to their beliefs
    • Lincoln just kept avoiding the topic of slavery

  • Lincoln Douglas Debates

    • Advocated racial equality and against the division of the UNion

  • Harper’s Ferry

    • Raid led by John Brown
    • Slaves independent and free
    • North and South were more divided
    • South viewed this as a threat to slavery
    • South wanted to succeed from the union

  • John Brown

    • Executed due to charge of treason
    • North viewed Brown as a martyr and a abolitionists because he went against slavery
    • South viewed slavery as a threat because he was leaning towards succession

  • Election of 1860

    • The Democratic Party chose two nominees
    • Nominated John Bell
    • Northerners chose Stephen Douglas

  • Lincoln’s 1st Inaugural Address

    • Argued the United States was a permanent government
    • He would not interfere with the idea of slaves or change states that had slavery.
    • Federal property would be protected.
    • He wanted peace.
    • No violence or aggression
    • The United States would not be the ones to first attack.

  • Secession

    • Confederate forces attacked the Fort Sumter.
    • Ended after 34 hours due to low supplies.
    • Lincoln called for volunteers in response to the attack as a form of righting against rebellion.
    • Led to the beginning of the American Civil War