Anti-Slavery Movement Precipitated The Cival War

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North

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Industrial economy, opposed slavery.

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South

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Agricultural economy relied on slavery

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Compromise of 1850

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Until the 1850s compromises were reached to preserve the nation, but after the Compromise of 1850, which admitted California as a free state, it was ot possible to find common ground. New fugitive Slave Act

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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In 1854, allowed new states to decide the issue of slavery, providing the anti-slavery movement with a focal pint, kanasa. The Abolitionis moved settlers, money and weapons to the new territory to assure that slavery would not be approved there. Stephen Douglas/Little Giant-Supported Dred Scott Dec.-Respsible for the Compromise f 1850, but opened the K/N Act for people to decide for themselves for slavery.

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The movement

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Was fueled in 1853, by the publication of Harriett Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. The novel highlighted the cruelties of slavery and provided a rallying point for the movement.

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Dred Scott Decision

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Supreme court ruled that slave-owners could take their private property into free territory, the antislavery movement howled that slavery could not spread unabated.

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John Brown

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In the fall of 1859, the movement reulted in open rebellion when John Brown carried out a raid on the Federal Arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia.

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Anti-slavery movement

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1861 polarized the debate to the extent that northerners were not willing to compromise again and southerners were determined to prevent any limits on slavery. The secession movement was fueled by fear that Lincoln would introduce legislation to curtail slavery.

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Emancipation Proclamation

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By 1863, it was evident that a compromise could not be reached, and Lincoln published the document, ending slavery in the rebelling states.

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Reconstruction

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Of the southern states-the abolitionists wanted to revamp southern society to destroy any trace of the old slaveholding culture. It was not until 1877 that Reconsturction ended and the former members of the Confederate States of America enjoined unfettered control of their own states.

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Plessy vs. Ferguson

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1896 Supresme court case that made racial segregation legal under :seperate but equal" terms

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Jim Crow

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Blacks were expected to followe certain rules like addressing whites as higher authorities, stepping off the sidewalk when speaking to whites, and not eat in restaurants attend events the same day as whites.

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Pres. Election of 1860

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American civil War- Lincoln won without support of South, S. Carolin secession from U.S.

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Abolitionis Movements

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Frederick Douglas-black
William Garrison-Editor of Newspaper the Liberator
Harriet Tubman-Help slaves free to Canada
Harriet Stowe-wrote Uncle
Toms Cabin

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Anti-Slavery movement

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Polarized the debate to the extent that northerners were not willing to compromise and southerners were determined to prevent any limits on slavery. The secession movement was fuelded by fear that Lincoln would introduce legislation to curtail slavery.

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Free soil movement

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To encourage wesward migration of the poor from East- Homestead Act adult citizen coul claim 160 acres of fed land after farming it for five years.

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Jefferson Davis

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Served pres of Conf States of America during civil war.

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Robert Lee

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General in Meixan War and Civil War

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Ulysses Grant

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General and President of U.S.
Union General during Civil War capured Vicksburg Richmond-Had Lee surendar

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William Tecumseh Sherman

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General U.S. Army

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Fort Sumter

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Charleston S.C. Named after General Sumter, First shots for civil war

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1stBull Run

2nd

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S Winner Lee vs Pope

S Winner Jackson vs McDowell

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Shiloh

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West winner North Grant vs Albert Johnston

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Antietam

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Winner North McClellan vs Lee

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Vicksburg

Gettysburg

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West Winner North, Grant vs Pemberton

Meade vs Lee- North Winner