Handout the American Civil War

spillage A House Divided Towards the American obliging struggle, 1831-1861 Causes of the American Civil War 1. social-economic differences between North and South 2. regional conflict roughly over knuckle downry in unorganized territories 3. break-up of national political troupe system emergence of new party system based on region (i. e. North-South) (see also handout week 4) 4. ideological and cultural polarization between North and South Constitution three-fifths clause flying slave clause slave trade clause 820 Missouri via media Missouri admitted as slave narrate Maine created as free state Line of 1820 (36 . 30 ) 1828-1833 South Carolina tariff nullification crisis 1831-1860 antislavery activism (1831 William Lloyd Garrison The Liberator) 1831 slave rebellion led by Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia 1845 annexation of Texas 1846-1848 Mexican War 1848U. S. victory over Mexico territorial expansion (California, Utah and unfermented Mexico territories) 1850 Compromise of 1850 California admitted as free state popular reign in New Mexico and Utah slave trade prohibited in District of Columbia (Washington, DC) Fugitive Slave Act 1852 Book return Harriet Beecher Stowes novel Uncle Toms Cabin 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act (Bleeding Kansas) 1854 splitting of Whig foundation republican Party (Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men) and American ( whop Nothing) Party 1857 Dred Scott Decision of the U. S.Supreme Court led by primary(prenominal) Justice Taney (pro-slavery) 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry (John Brown) 1860 Democratic Party splits into ii (North vs. South) November 1860 Lincoln (Republican Party) elected president December 1860 South Carolina secedes from the union 1861- January withdrawal method of Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas February adoption Confederate Constitution and creation of Confederate States of America (South) pres.Jefferson Davis chapiter Montgomery, Alabama. March inauguration of Pres. L incoln 12 April attack on (federal) beef up Sumter by door Confederate (Southern) troops beginning of the Civil War 9 April 1865 surrender by (Confederate) general Robert E. Lee (Appomattox) 14 April 1865 character assassination attempt on Pres. Lincoln Lincoln dies on April 15. George Fitzhugh, Sociology for the South (1854) and Cannibals on the whole or, Slaves Without Masters (1856) John Calhoun, Disquisition on Government (1850)