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Sectionalism and the Civil War Ms. Garratt
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Sectionalism Missouri Compromise 1820 Compromise of 1850 KS-NE Act 1854 Bleeding KS 1855 Sumner in Senate 1855 Free Soilers Republican Party Dred Scott Decision John Brown Lincoln-Douglas Debates Election of Lincoln Harriet Beecher Stowe Border ruffians
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NORTHSOUTH Industrial River Power Harsh winters Wage labor Agrarian (cotton, tobacco) Slave labor Mild weather all year
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California - Compromise of 1850 CA as free state Fugitive Slave Law DC Popular Sovereignty (letting the people decide whether or not to allow slavery) in NM & UT territories Secession
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Fugitive Slave Law Slaves denied trials Vigilance committees Harriet Tubman – conductor
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First test of popular sovereignty in Kansas. Supporters and opponents of slavery moved in to populate KS Election took place but 1000s of border ruffians illegally voted Lecompton gov set up. Anti-slavery forces set up rival gov Violence breaks out and KS earns the title of bleeding KS
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Opponents of the KS-NE Act form the Republican Party. Opposed to slavery in the new territories. Whigs, Free Soilers, Democrats & other parties joined. Chief goal was to resurrect the Missouri Compromise Election of 1856 John C. Fremont was their candidate. Had Fremont won many believe that the South would have seceded then
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Wanted to organize slaves & lead a rebellion. Attacked Harpers Ferry (a federal arsenal) The slave uprising Brown hoped for never occurred. Federal troops put down the uprising. Brown was tried & excuted In the North church bells rang, guns fired salutes. They considered Brown a martyr South became more paranoid Some whites suspected of anti-slavery views were attacked by mobs.
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1860 election Lincoln was a moderate Opposed extension of slavery into new territories but reassured South that he would not interfere with their slaves HE NEVER THREATENED TO END SLAVERY. South felt threatened by him His name didn’t even appear on the ballots of most southern states
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Question of “states rights” v federal control SC was first to secede followed by 10 other states Set up confederate gov in Montgomery Jefferson Davis - president
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Chart on page 169 Three part strategy Compare with South
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Deceptive Border states
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Bull Run Antietam Gettysburg Vicksburg Total War – Sherman March
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Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan “with malice toward, charity for all” Johnson’s Fifty Percent Plan Difference crush planter aristocracy 7 states Radicals & rift with Pres Johnson Refused to seat representatives from states Vetoed Civil Rights Act 1866 (2) Vetoed Freedman’s Bureau Act Congress overrode vetos
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Radicals and moderates join together to shift presidential control of Reconstruction to the Congress 1866 elections Reconstruction act of 1867
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Violation of Tenure in Office Act Pres could not remove cabinet member during term of president without Senate approval
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