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Missouri Compromise ✔✔Missouri: slave state Maine: free state 36' 30' parallel: boundary for future sates in the Louisiana Purchase (north of the line free and south of the line slave) Henry C... lay ✔✔Proposed the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 Known as "The Great Compromiser" Compromise of 1850 ✔✔California admitted as a free state Mexican Cession divided into Utah Territory and New Mexico Territory: slavery to be decided by popular sovereignty Slave trade abolished in the capital New, stricter fugitive slave law Texas received $10 million to pay off debt and accepted a new boundary that created the TX PanhandlePopular Sovereignty ✔✔People have authority Fugitive Slave Law ✔✔Threatened even free blacks Northern resentment led to more support for the Underground Railroad Ineffective enforcement angered Southerners Northern states passed personal liberty laws Personal Liberty Laws ✔✔Passed by state legislatures for bidding people to not help capture and return runaway slaves Uncle Tom's Cabin ✔✔Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe Told story of Uncle Tom, a kindly old slave, and Eva and how they were mistreated by a cruel master Influenced Northerners to become abolitionists Made Southerners angry Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854 ✔✔Created two new territories: Kansas and Nebraska Slavery to be decided by popular sovereigntyOverturned part of the Missouri Compromise Bleeding Kansas ✔✔Refers to the widespread destruction of property and bloodshed as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act Free Soilers ✔✔Anti-slavery settlers who rushed into Kansas to prevent it from becoming slave territory Dred Scott Decision ✔✔A slave was not a citizen and could not bring suit in the nation's courts Living in a free territory did not make a slave free Citizens could take their property (including slaves) anywhere in the U.S. The Missouri Compromise (which prohibited slavery) was declared unconstitutional Sumner/Brooks Incident ✔✔Charles Sumner was a northern senator Andrew Butler was a southern senator who owned slaves Preston Brooks was a member of the U.S. House and Butler's nephew Sumner made vicious remarks about Butler and Brooks beat him with a walking stickJohn Brown's Raid ✔✔Brown and others attacked Harper's Ferry, Virginia He planned to take over the arsenal and give the guns to slaves for a revolt Was later captured and hanged Became a martyr to the cause of abolition Lincoln-Douglas Debates ✔✔1858 Senate Debate, Lincoln forced Douglas to debate issue of slavery, Douglas supported pop-sovereignty, Lincoln asserted that slavery should not spread to territories. Douglas became Senator but Lincoln emerged as stronger Presidential candidate Know Nothing Party ✔✔"American Party" Anti-negro, anti-foreigner, anti-catholic Main purpose to sabotage other parties Republican Party ✔✔Northern party that opposed the spread of slavery in the territories Southern States ✔✔Southern states vowed that if a Republican candidate was elected president they would secede from the Union Thought the Republican party would try to abolish slaveryElection of 1860 ✔✔Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln was elected and Southern states began to secede (first was South Carolina) Fort Sumter ✔✔Federal fort on Charleston Harbor Attacked by Confederates in April 1861 Robert E. Lee ✔✔Became military commander of Confederate (Southern) forces Ironclads ✔✔Wooden ships covered in sheets of metal Ulysses S. Grant ✔✔Commander of Union (Northern) troops First Battle of Bull Run ✔✔First important battle of the Civil War Won by Confederates Emancipation Proclamation ✔✔Abraham Lincoln's proclamation that slaves in Southern states that seceded would be set freeThe Monitor ✔✔Union ironclad ship The Merrimack ✔✔Confederate ironclad ship Fort Henry and Fort Donelson ✔✔Two forts captured by Ulysses S. Grant that were crucial to the Union effort Battle of Shiloh ✔✔Second major Civil War battle; resulted in greater Union control over the Mississippi River Valley. Extremely bloody battle (23,000 casualties) Vicksburg ✔✔Siege that gave Union control of entire Mississippi River Turning point of war Battle of Antietam ✔✔Civil War battle in which the North suceedeed in halting Lee's Confederate forces in Maryland. Gave Lincoln the opportunity for the Emancipation ProclamationBattle of Gettysburg ✔✔Union Civil War victory that turned the tide against the Confederates at Gettysburg, Pennslyvania, resulted in the loss of 50,000 soldiers Gettysburg Address ✔✔Address by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of the Battle of Gettysburg Chattanooga ✔✔Union victory leading to Northern control of important railroad port Sherman's March to the Sea ✔✔General Sherman led troops on a march across Georgia burning cities and destroying everything in his path; killed civilians, destroyed crops. Sherman believed in total war Appomattox ✔✔Lee surrenders, Grant offers the Confederacy good surrender terms to try to reunify the country Clara Barton ✔✔Founded the American Red Cross Fighting 54th ✔✔Black soldiers who fought [Show More]

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