1. Events Leading To the Civil War

2. Missouri Compromise The Louisiana Purchase was made in 1803. Before this purchase there were 22 states: 11 free states and 11 slave states

3. Missouri Compromise Slave states permitted slavery; free states did not permit slavery.

5. Missouri Compromise The Missouri Compromise line was drawn at 36°30’ N. Everything north of this line was considered a free state.

6. Missouri Compromise Missouri was admitted as a slave state, and Maine was admitted as a free state.

8. Antislavery Movement The ACS supported the freedom of slaves and their removal back to Africa.

9. Antislavery Movement The nation of Liberia in W. Africa grew out of the work of the ACS.

11. Antislavery Movement Emancipation is another word for freedom.

12. Antislavery Movement William Lloyd Garrison published the antislavery newspaper, The Liberator.

15. Antislavery Movement John Brown: led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia. He hoped to provoke a slave rebellion; instead, he was captured and executed.

18. Nullification Crisis States Rights: The belief that the rights of the states should prevail over the rights of the federal government.

19. Nullification Crisis Tariff: A tax on imports

20. Nullification Crisis nullify: To prevent the enforcement of

21. Nullification Crisis Congress passed a bill that denied the states the right to nullify a law.

22. Nullification Crisis John C. Calhoun wrote the South Carolina Exposition

24. Compromise of 1850 The Republican party was formed to oppose slavery

25. Compromise of 1850 Popular sovereignty: A vote by people living in an area

26. Compromise of 1850 The Compromise of 1850 admitted CA as a free state, and stated that slavery in some of the other western territories would be determined by popular sovereignty

27. Compromise of 1850 The Kansas/Nebraska Act permitted the people of Kansas to decide upon slavery.

29. Compromise of 1850 Secession is the withdrawal from the Union

30. 1860 Election There were 4 political parties in the election of 1860.

31. 1860 Election Democrats: Stephen Douglas Southern Democrats: John C. Breckinridge Constitutional Union Party: John Bell Republican: Abraham Lincoln

32. 1860 Election platform: The principles and policies that a party supports.

33. 1860 Election Democrats: Supported popular sovereignty Southern Democrats: Supported slavery Const. Union Party: wanted to peacefully hold the Union together.

34. 1860 Election Republican: Opposed Slavery