Kansas-Nebraska Act/bleeding Kansas
Dred Scott v. Sanford
(1857) Slaves were classified as property. Which meant they could not sue. This case fueled the flames that began the Civil War.
John Wilkes Booth
April 14 United States actor and assassin of President Lincoln (1838-1865)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin 1852 - this opens many eyes and makes more abolition more respectable
Why was the the civil war so tragic?
- better guns/weapons - lack of sanitary conditions - not knowing about infections; medicine was still in the "dark ages"
Abraham Lincoln
1861-1865 16th president
The Civil War
1861-1865 •Name the U.S war between the North and the South.
Homestead Act
1862 law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to live on and cultivate it for five years
Battle of Gettysburg
1863 the event that marked the last major Confederate attempt to invade the North 50,000 die in 3 days
John Brown
Abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia
Election of 1856
Buchanan (Dem) defeats Fremont (Rep -Free Soil) and Fillmore (Know Nothings)
Several Southern states secede and form the....
Confederacy In December of 1860 7- states SC, GA, FL, AL, MS, LA, TX
States
In order for Chicago Illinois to benefit from the Transcontinental Railroad, the territories below Illinois (Kansas & Nebraska) had to become what?
What new party came into being in?
Know-nothings party; organized to take place of Whigs
James Buchanan
Lecompton Constitution Wins all of south and lower north
President
One of the reasons Stephen Douglas came up with the Kansas-Nebraska Act was to gain support from Southern Democrats so that he could run for what?
Before
Order of Events: The Kansas-Nebraska Act came BEFORE or AFTER Bleeding Kansas?
After
Order of Events: The Kansas-Nebraska Act came BEFORE or AFTER the Missouri Compromise?
What was the roll of the national government?
Pass higher tariff, income tax only while the war lasted, transitional rail road, homested act.
Popular Sovereignty
People in a region choose. People in Kansas & Nebraska (as well as NM, UT, NV) would choose whether or not they'd have slave labor.
1854
When did the Kansas-Nebraska Act go into effect?
Above 36' 30'
Where in the Louisiana Territory was Kansas & Nebraska located?
Anti-Slavery Supporters
Who was against the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Missouri Compromise
The Kansas-Nebraska Act went against what?
Pro-Slavery Supporters
Who would benefit from the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This law (act) would allow the people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska choose for themselves on whether the territory would be free of slave labor or have slaves.
Stephen Douglas
This man came up with the Kansas Nebraska Act.
Railroads
What did Stephen Douglas want his state of Illinois to benefit from?
Bleeding Kansas
What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act lead to?
Manassas Junction (July 1861)
also called 1st Bull Run. The South won because they received reinforcements.
Battle of Shiloh
an 1862 Civil War battle in Tennessee that ended in a Union victory
Emancipation Proclamation
order issued by Abraham Lincoln declaring slaves in all rebelling states were free -frees no slaves
Election of 1860
•Abraham Lincoln- first Republican president. •Northern democrats choose- Stephen Douglas •Southern democrats choose- John breckinridge
