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1. Sectionalism
2. Slavery: Differing economic
Long-term causes of the needs/reliance on slavery in the
Civil War South
3. Extension of Slavery
4. States' Rights
, (1) California admitted as free
state, (2) territorial status and
popular sovereignty of Utah and
New Mexico, (3) resolution of
Texas-New Mexico boundaries,
Compromise of 1850
(4) federal assumption of Texas
debt, (5) slave trade abolished
in DC, and (6) new fugitive slave
law; advocated by Henry Clay
and Stephen A. Douglas
Created the territories of Kansas
and Nebraska, opened new
lands, repealed the Missouri
Kansas-Nebraska Act Compromise of 1820, and
(1854) allowed settlers in those
territories to determine if they
would allow slavery within their
boundaries.
A Missouri slave sued for his
freedom, claiming that his four
year stay in the northern portion
of the Louisiana Territory made
free land by the Missouri
Dred Scott Decision *
Compromise had made him a
free man. The U.S, Supreme
Court decided he couldn't sue
in federal court because he was
property, not a citizen.
Idea authored by Stephen
Douglas that claimed slavery
Freeport Doctrine
could only exist when popular
sovereignty said so
, Statement by American envoys
abroad to pressure Spain into
selling Cuba to the United
States; the declaration
suggested that if Spain would
not sell Cuba, the United States
Ostend Manifesto (1854)
would be justified in seizing it. It
was quickly repudiated by the
U.S. government but it added to
the belief that a "slave power"
existed and was active in
Washington.
Proclamation issued by Lincoln,
freeing all slaves in areas still at
Emancipation war with the Union.Did not free
Proclamation slaves in borders states that
were loyal to the Union.
September 22, 1862
3-minute address by Abraham
Lincoln during the American
Civil War (November 19, 1963) to
Gettysburg Address honor fallen soldiers at the
dedication of a national
cemetery on the site of the
Battle of Gettysburg.
1863 (Meade and Lee), July 1-3,
1863, turning point in war, Union
Gettysburg victory, most deadly battle. The
South never advanced into the
North again.
Abolition of slavery w/o
compensation for slave-owners
13th Amendment (1865)