Handout the American Civil War

Handout A House Divided Towards the American Civil War, 1831-1861 Causes of the American Civil War 1. social-economic differences amidst North and South 2. regional conflict about over slavery in unorganized territories 3. break-up of national political party system emergence of new-made party system based on region (i. e. North-South) (see also handout week 4) 4. ideological and cultural polarisation between North and South system three-fifths clause fugitive slave clause slave trade clause 820 Missouri Compromise Missouri admitted as slave state 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 New Mexico territories) 1850 Compromise of 1850 California admit ted as free state popular sovereignty in New Mexico and Utah slave trade prohibited in District of Columbia (Washington, DC) Fugitive Slave Act 1852 Book publication Harriet Beecher Stowes impertinent Uncle Toms Cabin 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act (Bleeding Kansas) 1854 splitting of Whig foundation Republican political party (Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men) and American (Know Nothing) Party 1857 Dred Scott Decision of the U. S.Supreme Court led by Chief Justice Taney (pro-slavery) 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry (John Brown) 1860 Democratic Party splits into two (North vs. South) November 1860 Lincoln (Republican Party) elected prexy December 1860 South Carolina secedes from the union 1861- January secession of Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas February adoption Confederate Constitution and creation of Confederate States of America (South) pres.Jefferson Davis capital Montgomery, Alabama. March inauguration of Pres. Lincoln 12 April attack on (federal) Fort Sumter by door Confederate (Southern) troops beginning of the Civil War 9 April 1865 surrender by (Confederate) general Robert E. lee side (Appomattox) 14 April 1865 assassination attempt on Pres. Lincoln Lincoln dies on April 15. George Fitzhugh, Sociology for the South (1854) and Cannibals All or, Slaves Without Masters (1856) John Calhoun, Disquisition on Government (1850)