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33 Cards in this Set
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Sectionalism |
North and the South divided from the start of the colonies |
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Two different regional economies |
North and South |
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South based economy |
Plantation, Cash-Crop agriculture (Tobacco, Rice, sugar) was exported around the world Feudalism: Planters and slaves |
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Based Economy for the North |
Commerce and trade religious communities established in the colonies Furs, fish, Timber, and grain, self sufficient not plantation based |
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1783 Industrial Revolution in the north |
Textile factories Wage-Labor economy cash payments factory system middle class Modern Transportation such as; railroad and steamboats |
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Cause of Expansion of Slavery in the south |
Rise of cotton demand coming from England From 100 tons in 1790 to 1 million tons in 1860, therefore the amount of slaves went from 700,000 in 1790 to 4.5 million slaves in 1860 |
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reason North and south divided in economic grounds |
Slavery |
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The north opposed to slavery because... |
Being a modern society slavery became an obstacle to free-labor; unpaid work Slavery was more expensive than wage labor because the mantainig of slaves Slavery limits internal markets since the slaves could become more customers Slavery Stands against the idea of liberty |
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Southerners opposed of abolition of slavery because... |
Slave owners claimed it violated property rights poor whites didn't want to compete with blacks for jobs |
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What divided western territories |
Slavery, because they were fighting if those purchased states should or shouldn't be slave free |
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Abolitionist movement on the North |
Abolitionist socitys arose during the religious revival movement that was second great aweakening which was saying tha God Second's comming was going to happen and slavery was looked as a sin, so the US would become the Nation of sin |
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Division of Political parties |
South Democratic party and Northern anti-slavery created the Republican Party |
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Democratic |
Defend Slavery Rise of abolitionist- Politics in the North |
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Republican |
Anti-slavery agenda: Slavery was inmoral Wanted to prohibit the expansion of slavery into western territories Force to extinct slavery |
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Why did Southerners viewed thisrepublicans as revolutionary organization |
Threatend their way of life Threateand their property rights |
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Secession in 1860 |
with the election of Lincoln slave states perceived the beginning of a northern revolution and they started their counter revolution and secede from the union and started the Confederate States of America |
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Why did confederate states lost in the civil war |
Inability to raise funds through taxes Confederate States fought on their own unlike the North had a full army The South couldn't get the crops they used from the north anymore (couldn't grow food) They had an inefficient transportation system Limited Railroads lines 9,500 miles vs 22,000 miles form the north |
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Lincoln Strategies to beat the confederacy |
Naval blockade for southerners which meant no trading for the south anymore, and cotton prices went down. Infrastructure destruction on the south |
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Wartime Reconstruction |
Emancipation proclamation (4 million slaves) Slaves were back bone of the confederacy |
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Interracial Democracy |
Civil and Voting rights for blacks |
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13th amendment |
ended slavery |
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Presidential Reconstruction |
Lincoln's 10% plan wich was that 10% of the population form each state had to succeed emancipation proclamation and 13th amendment to be admited back into the union |
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Andrew Johnson |
Rejects Interracial democracy and make the 13th amendment to be the only requirement for the south to be admitted back |
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Vagrancy Laws in the South |
Labor Contract Southerners wanted to get back into the pre-war system but this time under payment |
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Johnson blocks Congressional Reconstruction |
vetoed the civil rights act in 1866 14th amendment which granted citizenship to the freedmen |
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Congressional Reconstruction |
There was a predominance of radical republicans then came the first reconstruction act in 1867 which consisted on territory status to ex-confederate states, military districts were introduced the south had to re-draw the republican constitution Needed to ratify the 14th amendment which meant citizenship to al people born in US regardless of race or color |
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Second reconstruction act |
military enforcement of black voting rights and voter registration 15th amendment universal male suffrage voting rights to all males regardless of race or color. |
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Rise of republican party on the south |
Bi-racial coallition: black voters and black elected to political office |
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The gospel of prosperity |
schools, hospitals, roads, asylums, prisons were built |
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Southern Reaction to radical reconstruction |
wave of violence in memphis and new orleans creation of the kkk to make democratic party to rule again. Black Codes: state codes so that blacks can't work |
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End of reconstruction |
in 1873 there was an economic deppression South blame republicans for depression |
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Great compromise in 1877 |
comprimise that made republicans stays in thepresidency by withdrawing federal troops and building railroads on the south |
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End of reconstruction |
Admission of ex-confederate states back into the union: Southerners states rewrote Constitution (abolished titles of nobility) Southern states constitutions ratified the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments Slavery was replaced by labor- contracts and sharecropping. |
