The Road to Civil War (1861-1865) I’ll provide the information, you provide the visuals.
Dec 31, 2015
Early Signs of Sectionalism
• 3/5 Compromise
• The Slave Trade Compromise
• The Northwest Land Ordinance
• The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
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 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
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)
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 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