Allowed California to enter as a free state thus throwing off the balance between slave states and free states.

Fugitive slave law - Allowed US Marshalls to enter Northern territory, seize suspected escaped slaves, and return them to the south.

Adjustment of New Mexico/Texas border.

Allowed for land captured in Mexican-American war to be divided into two territories and slavery would be determined by popular sovereignty.

What larger issues did the Compromise of 1850 attempt to address?

What was popular sovereignty?

Letting states choose to be either free states or slave states.

Intruded slavery into free areas of the North

What impact did Uncle Tom’s Cabin have on the division of the nation?

Showed the humanity of slaves in US. Awakened to the fact that they are human.

What was the Gadsen Purchase?

James Gadsen (Ambassador to Mexico) purchases 53,000 acres in the Southwest

Why were changing trade routes an issue?

South would no longer get money for our trade route.

Organizing Kansas and Nebraska territory

Stephen Douglas, because he wanted Illinois to expand

Number of free states vs. slave states

What was Bleeding Kansas?

Race to control territory in Kansas

Slave of a doctor who worked for the army

Stationed in Minnesota and falls in love with a woman named Harriet. Masters talk to each other and Harriet was sold to the doctor. Had baby. Doctor dies, and family is suppose to be distributed. Goes to the Blows and try to help Dred Scott gain his freedom based on the fact that they were living in free territory. Went to supreme court. Ending result was that slavery cannot be banned anywhere in the US and black people are not citizens. 

Attempt to seize power by the pro slavery faction

Soldier who was against slavery

People who wanted to repent for the sin of slavery

People realized that they had to do something about slavery rather than just talk about it.

Trade and transportation became much more efficient. Travel and migration was much easier. 

In what ways did the railroad intrude into the political discourse of the age?

More say in the North

People bought and sold like products. Not good for the economy for they were expensive to feed and clothe. Stifles progress.

White people who owned them at the top of society, keeping black people oppressed and at the bottom of the social ladder. Gives privilege to even non-slave owning people.  Always job for white people.

Territorially distinct. Divided by religion. North – Industry. South – Agriculture. Republicans – North. Democrats – South.

Spoke same language. Same political system.

What were the advantages/disadvantages of both the North and South prior to the Civil War?

Southern Advantages:

      No need to invade

      Familiar ground

      Servile workforce

      Military talent

      Strong economy

      Supportive Population

Northern Advantages

      Technology and manufacturing

      Larger population

      Navy talent

      Lincoln

The South could stay where they were and knew where everything was. Slaves gave them time to put effort into war. Population tipped them off.

The North had easier time because of technology. Had a younger, stronger and healthier army. Land was surrounded by water. Lincoln was good war leader.

Lincoln sought to control the border states (Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri and later West Virginia)

Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus and the pro Confederate press in Maryland

Lincoln enacted the Confiscation Acts (1861 – 1862 and the Emancipation Proclamation)

This denied the south access to their primary source of labor

He endorsed Winfield Scott’s plan to blockade southern ports (Anaconda Plan)

This denied the south the ability to sell their cotton and to buy in war materials 

Why did the south secede?

Thought states had right to make their own laws. Not Federal government.

Provokes response from South Carolina. Buchanan won’t resupply fort. Lincoln only sends peaceful supplies. Confederacy just wanted acknowledgement. Nobody died. First battle in the Civil War. Confederacy was joined by Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina. Gave Confederacy a fighting chance to win the war.

Davis was very inflexible and stubborn? Didn’t want war?

You cannot be arrested without cause. Could not hold people no matter what they are being accused of.

Suspended it in areas of the North where there was strong Confederate support.

Border States – Maryland, Missouri, Kentucky, Virginia.

Why was Lincoln trying to control the border states Maryland, Missouri, Kentucky and Virginia?

So they wouldn't secede

What group was Lincoln most concerned with?

Nation’s Capital would be owned by the South

Could secede to the South.

Former senator to be president of the confederacy. Used similar methods as Lincoln to fund the war. Overtaxed Confederates. Confederates resented him.

      How did both the north and the south finance the war?

North:

      Taxes

      Tariff

      Regulated Currency

      Bond Sales

South:

      Taxes

      Bonds

      Printed Currency

Drafts for a war that people didn’t want to fight.

Didn’t want to fight. Afraid of losing men. Different theory of war – Antione Henri Jomini

Three day battle. General George Meade. Made people realize that the war was useless. Both armies unaware that either was there. South was defeated.

Turning point in the war. South could not replace soldiers they had lost.

Speech that kind of freed the slaves in Southern areas still in rebellion

To take away Southern advantages

What fundamental reason resulted in the north’s victory over the south?

South didn’t want to risk lives of men for a battle they may not win.

North – Draft for war that they didn’t want to fight.

South – War being in their land and women feared for safety. Prices going up because of inflation.