1. The Road to Civil War (1861-1865)
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2. Sectionalism
Loyalty to one’s geographic region rather than the nation.

3. Early Signs of Sectionalism
The Northwest Land Ordinance (1785)
3/5 Compromise (1787)
The Slave Trade Compromise (1787)
The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions (1800)

4. The Middle Passage

5. Eli Whitney invents the Cotton Gin
Increased Demand for Slavery

6. Sectional Issues Expansion of Slavery Tariffs The National Bank
Immigration
Federal Road and Canal Construction
The “right” of Nullification
National Unity v States’ Rights

7. The Missouri Compromise- 1820
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

8. The Webster- Hayne Debate
National Unity vs States’ Rights

9. Henry Clay’s Compromise Tariff
Why did the North and South almost split over the tariff issue?

10. The Gag Rule
Congress vows not to mention the word slavery

11. Nat Turner’s Revolt Virginia- August 1831
slave owners and family members killed
State almost voted to end slavery (71-58 vote against)

12. 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

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

14. Increased Sectional Issues
Annexation (taking) of Texas
Mexican War Controversy
Expansion of Slavery
# free/slave states

15. The Mexican War and Cession

16. Why was California becoming a State such a problem?

17. The Compromise of 1850

18. The Fugitive Slave Act

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

20. The Kansas- Nebraska Act

21. Bleeding Kansas
Violent Response to
Popular Soviergnty

22. The Free Soil Party becomes the Republican Party
A story of how single issue political parties can influence politics in the USA.

23. Preston Brooks canes Charles Sumner!
Back street brawl in Congress!

24. 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

25. Impact of Dred Scott v Sanford
Enslaved people were not people, they were property
Only citizens, could sue in the US Judicial System
Property protected by 5th amendment
Mo. Compromise, Kansas- Nebraska Act unconstitutional
Could there be such a thing as a “free state”?

26. The Lincoln- Douglas Debates!
1858- ran against each other for a seat in the United States Senate- Douglas won…but

27. John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia

28. The Presidential Election of 1860

29. South Carolina Secedes from the Union!