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Ch.5 Secession and Resistance

• By Matthew Pippin

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Important facts about North and South

• South• Farming economy based

on cotton.• Cotton production based

around slavery• Manufactured very little

and imported much so opposed high tariffs.

• No need for strong Gov. and feared it would interfere with slavery.

• North.• Industrial economy • Factories needed labor

but not slave labor• Wanted high tariffs to

protect products from competition

• Needed central Gov. to build roads and railways to protect trading interest.

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Law passed in 1820 stating that Missouri would enter union as slave state and Maine

as a free state• Missouri Compromise• Stated that southern

boundary of Missouri would be the dividing line for new states entering the Union

• Line known as 36,30’N

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Agreement where California would enter as free state and Utah and New Mexico

Territories would be open to slavery.

• Compromise of 1850

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Stephen Douglas’s idea that people living in an area could decide whether or not to allow

slavery.• Popular Sovereignty

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Attached to the Compromise of 1850,it mandated that northern states return

escaped slaves to their owners in south.• Fugitive Slave Law

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Act that allowed Kansas and Nebraska to use popular sovereignty to determine

if slavery would be allowed.

• Kansas-Nebraska act of 1854

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Armed clashes between proslavery and abolitionist settlers in Kansas

• Bleeding Kansas• Each side est. a

government and Kansas existed as a state in Civil War.

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Political Party that believed slavery must not be permitted in new

territory.

• Free-Soilers• Martin Van Buren was

part of this party

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New Political party that formed around the opposition of slavery

• Republican

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Supreme court case that said slaves were not citizens and said the Missouri

Compromise was unconstitutional.

• Dred Scott Case

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Argument by Stephen Douglas that slavery could not be instituted

without laws to govern it

• Freeport Doctrine• Caused Douglas to

loose support in the South but kept support in the North.

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Fierce abolitionist who hoped to arm the slaves and lead a attempt to seize a weapons depot at

Harpers Ferry Virginia

• John Brown• Was hung for treason• His death helped

unite the abolitionist movement.

• Southerners realized their security was at risk.

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First President of the Confederate states of America

• Jefferson Davis• Took office in

Montgomery Alabama

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Elected as the First Republican president of U.S.

• Abraham Lincoln• Believed that slavery

should not be allowed in the new territories

• His election caused the southern states to begin sucession

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Site where civil war began on April 12, 1861

• Ft. Sumter• As result Lincoln

called for 75,000 troops

• Border states have to decide which side to take.

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County in Alabama that remained neutral during the Civil War

• Winston County• Men meet at Looney’s

Tavern to decide to remain neutral.

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Result of conflict between southern planters in east Virginia and small farmers in the mountains of

west Virginia

• Formation of state of West Virginia

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Strategies at beginning of war

• Union or North• Get southern states to

rejoin the Union

• South• Force the Union to

recognize the rights of southern states to secede

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Military strategy of the north to squeeze the south by naval blockade around the southern coast and

seize control of Mississippi river.• Anaconda Plan

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First land battle of the Civil war

• Battle of Bull Run or Battle of Manassas

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Battle that marked the turning point of the civil war

• Battle of Gettysburg

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Site where Robert E Lee surrendered to General Grant

ending the civil war

• Appomattox courthouse