The Road to Civil War (1861-1865)

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Sectionalism

• Loyalty to one’s geographic region rather than the nation.

Early Signs of Sectionalism

• 3/5 Compromise

• The Slave Trade Compromise

• The Northwest Land Ordinance

• The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

Eli Whitney invents the Cotton Gin

• Increased Demand for Slavery

Sectional Issues

• Expansion of Slavery

• Tariffs

• The National Bank

• Immigration

• Federal Road and Canal Construction

• The “right” of Nullification

• National Unity v States’ Rights

The Middle Passage

The Missouri Compromise

• The first attempt to resolve the issue of the expansion of slavery

• Missouri a slave state

• Maine a free state

• Balance in Senate

• 36’ 30 North parallel

The Webster- Hayne Debate• National Unity vs States’ Rights

Henry Clay’s Compromise Tariff

• Why did the North and South almost split over the tariff issue?

Nat Turner’s Revolt

• Virginia

• 50- 60 slave owners and family members killed

• 1830s

• State of VA almost voted to end slavery in VA (71-58 vote against ending slavery)

The Gag Rule

• Congress vows not to mention the word slavery

Abolitionists- The people who wanted to abolish slavery

• Nat Turner- slave revolt• John Brown- “Bleeding Kansas”, Harpers Ferry, VA• Harriet Tubman- Underground Railroad• Elijah Lovejoy- Journalist in the South• Frederick Douglass- Orator and runaway slave• Harriet Beecher Stowe- “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”• William Lloyd Garrison- Wrote “ The Liberator”• Sojourner Truth

Manifest Destiny

• “From Atlantic to Pacific isn’t Manifest Destiny terrific!”

• Led to increased tensions between the North and South during the 1850s

• Expansion of Slavery

The Mexican War and Cession

Why was California becoming a State such a problem?

The Compromise of 1850

The Fugitive Slave Act

Congress helps publish “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Kansas- Nebraska Act

Bleeding Kansas

• Violent Response to

• Popular Soviergnty

Preston Brooks canes Charles Sumner!

• Back street brawl in Congress!

The Free Soil Party becomes the Republican Party

• A story of how single issue political parties can influence politics in the USA.

The Dred Scott Supreme Court Case- 1857

• Did this Supreme Court decision make the Civil War inevitable?

• Why do some say that this decision was the worst interpretation of the US Constitution ever?

• Notes must include– Background– Question to be Resolved– Constitutional Connection– Short Term Result– Long Term Importance

The Lincoln- Douglas Debates!

John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia

The Presidential Election of 1860

South Carolina Secedes from the Union!