Unit 9

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  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Uncle Tom's cabin was a novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe, who was white, published Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852 in order to show the North the horrors of slavery. It was published abroad, including France and Britain and helped to start the Civil War and for the North to win it.

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed in 1854 by the U.S. Congress in 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders, also called popular sovereignty. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´

  • Dred Scott vs. Stanford

    Dread Scott, a slave sued for his freedom on the basis of his long residence on free soil. The Supreme Court ruled that because Scott was a black slave and he could not sue in Federal courts. The Court ruled that because a slave was private property, he could be taken into any territory and legally held there in slavery. The Court stated that the Missouri Compromise of 1820 was unconstitutional and that Congress had no power to ban slavery from the territories.

  • Dethroning King Cotton

    The common people of Britain & France supported the North, hoping to end slavery. Because of this, these countries refrained from breaking the Union naval blockades. The British manufacturers depended on cotton from the South, but before the war, a surplus of cotton had developed in Britain, allowing it to function without purchasing cotton from the South. King Wheat and King Corn, which were produced in great quantities in the North, proved to be more powerful than King Cotton.

  • 13th Amendment

    The 13th Amendment to the Constitution was passed in 1865, 8 months after the Civil War ended. This legally ended slavery and freed all the the slaves

  • Lincoln's Assassination

    On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was shot and killed at Ford's Theater by southerner, John Wilkes Booth. He was the first president to be assassinated. Andrew Johnson took over as President.