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Slavery
Necessary Evil
Forced Labor
That "Peculiar Institution" caused division -
Period: to
Causes of Civil War
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Missouri Compromise of 1820
36 Degrees North 30 = No Slavery
36 Degreees South 30 = Slavery
Maine = Free State -
Compromise of 1850
California = Free State
Tough Fugitive Slave Law
No more slave trade in Washington, DC -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Fictional Book about Slavery
Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Showed Slave Conditions -
Kansas- Nebraska Act
Overturned Missouri Compromise
Use Popular Soverinty to determine slavery
Aboltionst and Pro Slave Sypporters Clash -
Bleeding Kansas
Result of K-N Act
Aboltionist and Pro Slave fight for two years
They voted on slavery -
Dred Scott Decision
Slave that sued for his freedom and lost
He was taken to a free state by his owner
The decision was made that he was property not a person -
John Brown: Radical Aboltionist
At Harper's Ferry Virginia he lead a slave revolt
He felt as if God gave him the task of freeing slaves
The raid failed and he was executed -
Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln (Repubilican) and John C. Breckenridge (Southern Democrat) ran for the Presidental Election. Some southern states seceded
They became Confedarate States of America -
Secession of Southern States
South Carolina was the 1st to secede
Others southern states followed shortly after.
They formed the CSA under Jefferson Davis -
Firing on Fort Sumter, S.C.
1st Shots of Civil War
CSA Tried to capture for guns
Linclon sent food and supplies. -
Lincon calls up volunteers to fight
CSA formed army
Linclon increased troops
Led to Battle of bull run -
Battle of Bull Run
First Battle between union and Confederacy
Union soldiers marched to the confederate soldier
the Rebel army started off slowly and then rallied