1. QUESTIONS
AND
RELATED
FACTS

2. Henry K. Burgwyn= Good Leadership
Trained at West Point and Virginia Military Institute
Strict Training
Lost 600 at Gettysburg

3. Leaders supported Missouri Compromise
“What were the different feelings in NC regarding slavery?”
Leaders supported Missouri Compromise
-slavery to South, none to North
Many Quakers and others supported
“abolition”
But most whites in NC supported slavery:WHY?
Hinton Rowan Helper:
“Impending Crisis of the
South”-abolitionist book .

4. We added new territory: That raised a question.
287 “How did the Mexican American War threaten to split the nation?”
We added new territory: That raised a question.
Would the new territory be slave or free?
California entered
As free state
Compromise of 1850 decided this.
Later states would vote whether to be slave or free
South got THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT: ESCAPED SLAVES
MUST BE RETURNED TO MASTERS

5. The South hoped that new settlers would vote to have slavery.
That would mean more votes on their side in Congress.

6. 288-289 “What were the different views within NC on whether the state should secede?”

7. 7 states secede IN 1861 and form CSA
NC votes
NOT to
Secede
“Unionists” in Piedmont and West outvote the “Secessionists”
In the East.

8. But when the war begins in April 1861, NC secedes
Begins when SC attacks Union Fort at Sumter SC

9. Going through Albemarle Sound was an approach to Richmond
: “WHY WAS EASTERN NC IMPORTANT AND WHAT EVENTS OCCURRED IN THAT REGION?
Going through Albemarle Sound
was an approach to Richmond

10. Wilmington was the last open
Confederate port.
Brought in vital supplies which went up the RR to the CSA army

11. 13th Amendment ends slavery
Grants equality
15 amendment grants right to vote

12. Holden starts NC Republican Party
Freemen can:
Marry
Own Property
Educate their children .

13. Rise of the Ku Klux Klan A white racist organization
Used violence and intimidation
GOAL: Restore white control
Murdered Senator John Stephens

14. 14th amendment: equal rights
Allowed state to borrow $ to rebuild
the railroads
Allowed counties to elect their own
Justices of the Peace

15. Conservatives opposed because they wanted White Rule

16. Used KKK to intimidate Black voters and sympathetic whites
At least 15 murders in Caswell, Alamance, Orange
Most famous
victim:
Senator
John
Stephens

17. “Redemption” refers to the return to “White Rule”
Conservatives impeached Governor Holden
Ended the reforms that had helped Blacks
Resegregated schools
Changed law so Legislature chose
Justices of the Peace, not voters

18. Established churches under their own control
Established Schools
African Methodist Episcopal
Became active in politics

20. Black Justices of the Peace could safeguard rights
Tried to get more blacks on juries
John Adams Hyman elected
To State Senate

21. Farmer pays rent by giving part of crop
To landowner
Often resulted in
A life of debt and
poverty

22. THE 11 CONFEDERATE STATES Virginia
Tennessee
North Carolina
The last 4
South Carolina
Arkansas
The First 7
Georgia
Texas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Florida

23. THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA

24. The Border States
Slave states that
Stayed with the
Union
Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia

25. SHOULD SLAVERY BE ALLOWED TO MOVE WEST INTO
THE DISAGREEMENT THAT
CAUSED THE WAR
SHOULD SLAVERY BE ALLOWED TO MOVE WEST INTO
THE NEW TERRITORIES? .
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