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Events Leading to the Civil War

Events Leading to the Civil War. Between 1800 and 1850, what region developed an industrial economy based on manufacturing?. The North. Which region favored high protective tariffs?. The North. Define protective tariffs.

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Events Leading to the Civil War

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  1. Events Leading to the Civil War

  2. Between 1800 and 1850, what region developed an industrial economy based on manufacturing? • The North

  3. Which region favored high protective tariffs? • The North

  4. Define protective tariffs. • Taxes on imports which are so high that Americans cannot afford to buy foreign goods

  5. What was the basis of the South’s economy? • Agriculture (Farming) • Plantations that used slave labor

  6. Did the South support or oppose high tariffs? • Opposed

  7. Why did the South oppose high tariffs? • Made manufactured goods more expensive

  8. As the U.S. expanded westward, what conflict threatened to tear the country apart? • Slavery

  9. Define abolitionists. • People who wanted to abolish (end) slavery immediately

  10. Who was one of the most important abolitionist leaders? • William Lloyd Garrison

  11. What was the name of the antislavery newspaper in Boston? • The Liberator

  12. Who published The Liberator? • William Lloyd Garrison

  13. Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin? • Harriet Beecher Stowe

  14. Describe Uncle Tom’s Cabin. • An antislavery novel • Told the cruelties of slavery

  15. How did Uncle Tom’s Cabin affect the North? • Made Northern abolitionists mad • Caused many more Northerners to support the Abolitionist movement

  16. How did the Abolitionist movement affect Southerners? • Frightened them

  17. What kind of rebellions did Southerners fear? • Slave Rebellions

  18. Who was Gabriel Prosser?

  19. African-American slave • Planned a slave revolt in Richmond, Va. • Revolt crushed by Va. militia • Prosser and 35 slaves were executed

  20. Who was Nat Turner?

  21. An African-American slave • Led a slave revolt in Southampton County, Va. • Killed 55 whites • 100+ blacks were killed • Turner was captured and executed

  22. What were two effects of Nat Turner’s Rebellion? • Increased Southern fears of Slave Rebellions • Southern states passed stricter slave codes

  23. Who proposed the Missouri Compromise? • Henry Clay

  24. What were the 3 parts of the Missouri Compromise?

  25. Missouri became a slave state • Maine became a free state • Louisiana Territory was divided at the 36 degree, 30 minute parallel; north of the line must be free territory; south of the line could be slave territory

  26. How many U.S. senators does each state have? • Two

  27. What balance did the Missouri Compromise maintain? • Balance of power in Senate between the North and the South

  28. Who proposed the Compromise of 1850? • Henry Clay

  29. Who have historians called the “Great Compromiser”? • Henry Clay

  30. What were the key points of the Compromise of 1850?

  31. California became a free state • Stronger fugitiveslavelaw • Abolished the slave trade, but not slavery itself, in the District of Columbia • Created the Utah and New Mexico territories; decide slavery by popular sovereignty

  32. What did the new Fugitive Slave Act do?

  33. Made it easier for slave catchers to capture and return runaway slaves • Required escaped slaves to be forcibly returned to their owners in the South

  34. Who hated the Fugitive Slave Act? • Northerners

  35. What was popular sovereignty? • The people of a territory would decide whether they wanted slavery

  36. Who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act? • Stephen Douglas, Democrat (Illinois)

  37. What is a bill? • A proposed law

  38. What is an act? • A Law

  39. Identify the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

  40. Created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska • Said popularsovereignty would decide slavery in both Kansas and Nebraska • Since both Kansas and Nebraska were north of the Missouri Compromise line, the Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise

  41. What effect did the Kansas-Nebraska Act have on the Missouri Compromise? • The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise.

  42. What broke out in the Kansas Territory? • Civil war between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers

  43. What adjective was used to describe Kansas in the mid-1850s? • Bleeding Kansas

  44. What political party was formed in opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act? • The Republican Party

  45. What were the two major results of the Kansas-Nebraska Act? • Bleeding Kansas • Republican Party

  46. What was the Supreme Court’s decision in the Dred Scott case?

  47. Since Dred Scott was a slave, he could not sue in federal court • African-Americans were not citizens of the United States • Since Congress had no power to prohibit slavery in the territories, the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional

  48. What did the Dred Scott decision say about the Missouri Compromise? • The Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

  49. What power did the Supreme Court use in Dred Scott v. Sandford? • The power of judicial review

  50. In Dred Scott v. Sandford did the Supreme Court rule that Scott should remain a slave or gain his freedom? • Remain a slave

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