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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. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Events Leading to Events Leading to the Civil Warthe Civil War
Between 1800 and 1850, what Between 1800 and 1850, what region developed an industrial region developed an industrial
economy based on economy based on manufacturing?manufacturing?
•The North
Which region favored Which region favored highhigh protective tariffs? protective tariffs?
•The NorthThe North
Define protective Define protective tariffs.tariffs.
• Taxes on imports which are so high that Americans cannot afford to buy foreign goods
What was the basis of the South’s economy?
•Agriculture (Farming)
•Plantations that used slave labor
Did the South support Did the South support or oppose high tariffs?or oppose high tariffs?
•OpposedOpposed
Why did the South Why did the South oppose high tariffs?oppose high tariffs?•Made manufactured Made manufactured goods more goods more expensiveexpensive
As the U.S. expanded As the U.S. expanded westward, what conflict westward, what conflict
threatened to tear the threatened to tear the country apart?country apart?
•SlaverySlavery
Define Define abolitionists.abolitionists.
• People who wanted to People who wanted to abolish (end) slavery abolish (end) slavery immediatelyimmediately
Who was one of the Who was one of the most important most important
abolitionistabolitionist leaders? leaders?
•William Lloyd William Lloyd GarrisonGarrison
What was the name of What was the name of the antislavery the antislavery
newspaper in Boston?newspaper in Boston?
•The Liberator
Who published The Liberator?
•William Lloyd William Lloyd GarrisonGarrison
Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
•Harriet Beecher Harriet Beecher StoweStowe
Describe Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
•An antislavery novel
•Told the cruelties of slavery
How did UncleUncle Tom’s Cabin affect the North?
• Made Northern abolitionists mad
• Caused many more Northerners to support the Abolitionist movement
How did the Abolitionist movement
affect Southerners?
•Frightened them
What kind of rebellions did
Southerners fear?
•Slave Rebellions
Who was Gabriel Prosser?
• African-American slave
• Planned a slave revolt in Richmond, Va.
• Revolt crushed by Va. militia
• Prosser and 35 slaves were executed
Who was Nat Turner?
• An African-American slave
• Led a slave revolt in Southampton County, Va.
• Killed 55 whites
• 100+ blacks were killed
• Turner was captured and executed
What were two effects of Nat Turner’s Rebellion?
• Increased Southern fears of Slave Rebellions
• Southern states passed stricter slave codes
Who proposed the Missouri
Compromise?
•Henry Clay
What were the 3 parts of the Missouri
Compromise?
• 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
How many U.S. senators does each
state have?
•Two
What balance did the What balance did the Missouri Compromise Missouri Compromise
maintain?maintain?
• Balance of power in Balance of power in SenateSenate between the between the NorthNorth and the and the SouthSouth
Who proposed the Who proposed the Compromise of 1850?Compromise of 1850?
•Henry ClayHenry Clay
Who have historians called the “Great Compromiser”?
•Henry Clay
What were the key points of the Compromise of
1850?
• California became a free state
• Stronger fugitive slave law
• 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
What did the new What did the new Fugitive Slave Fugitive Slave
Act do?Act do?
• Made it easier for slave Made it easier for slave catchers to capture and catchers to capture and return runaway slaves return runaway slaves
• Required escaped slaves Required escaped slaves to be forcibly returned to to be forcibly returned to their owners in the Souththeir owners in the South
Who hated the Who hated the Fugitive Slave Act?Fugitive Slave Act?
•NorthernersNortherners
What was popular sovereignty?
• The people of a territory would decide whether they wanted slavery
Who proposed the Who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Kansas-Nebraska
Act?Act?
•Stephen Douglas, Stephen Douglas, Democrat (Illinois)Democrat (Illinois)
What is a bill?What is a bill?
•A proposed lawA proposed law
What is an act?What is an act?
•A Law
Identify the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
• Created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska
• Said popular sovereignty 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
What effect did the Kansas-Nebraska Act have on the Missouri Compromise?
• The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise.
What broke out in the Kansas Territory?
• Civil war between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers
What adjective was used to describe Kansas in the
mid-1850s?
•Bleeding Kansas
What political party was formed in opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska
Act?
• The Republican Party
What were the two major results of the
Kansas-Nebraska Act?
•Bleeding KansasBleeding Kansas
•Republican PartyRepublican Party
What was the Supreme Court’s
decision in the Dred Scott case?
• 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
What did the Dred Scott decision say about the
Missouri Compromise?
• The Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
What power did the Supreme Court use in Dred
Scott v. Sandford?
•The power of judicial review
In Dred Scott v. Sandford did the Supreme Court rule that Scott should
remain a slave or gain his freedom?
•Remain a slave
Which section liked the Dred Scott decision, the
North or the South?
•The South
Which group(s) liked the Dred Scott decision?
• Abolitionists?
• Republicans?
• Slaves?
• Slaveholders?
Slaveholders
Who ran for the U.S. Who ran for the U.S. Senate against Stephen Senate against Stephen
Douglas in 1858?Douglas in 1858?
•Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln
In the Lincoln-Douglas In the Lincoln-Douglas debates who supported debates who supported popular sovereignty?popular sovereignty?
•Stephen Douglas
In the Lincoln-Douglas In the Lincoln-Douglas debates who said, “A debates who said, “A
house divided against itself house divided against itself cannot stand”?cannot stand”?
•Abraham Lincoln
In the Lincoln-Douglas In the Lincoln-Douglas debates who said the U.S. debates who said the U.S.
could could notnot continue continue half-free and half-slave?half-free and half-slave?
•Abraham Lincoln
Who won the 1858 Senate election in
Illinois?
•Stephen Douglas
In the 1850s what was In the 1850s what was the North increasingly the North increasingly
against?against?
•The Spread of Slavery to the West
By the end of the 1850s, what By the end of the 1850s, what did Southerners argue states did Southerners argue states
could do?could do?
• States could nullify laws passed by Congress
• States could secede from the Union
What did it mean for a What did it mean for a state to state to nullifynullify a law? a law?
•Void it
•Do Away with it
What did it mean for a state to secede?
•Leave the UnionLeave the Union
Who gave the “House Divided” speech in the
1858 Illinois Senate election campaign?
•Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln