TEKS Review #6 - Civil War / Reconstruction

based on trade and manufacturing;

based on agriculture/plantation farming/depended on the use of slaves

proposed by Henry Clay; settled the issue of California statehood: 1. California - free state; 2. Slave trade banned in Washington, D.C.; 3. Stronger Fugitive Slave Act passed; 4. Popular sovereignty to decide slavery in Mexican Cession

proposed by Stephen A. Douglas; issue of slavery in Kansas and Nebraska territories would be decided by popular sovereignty; this law overturned the Missouri Compromise of 1820

fighting between pro-slavery and anti-slavery people in Kansas; John Brown was an extreme abolitionist who killed pro-slavery settlers in Kansas

formed by Northern Whigs and people who opposed slavery

Supreme Court case that ruled slaves were property and that slavery could not be banned in the territories because it would violate 5th Amendment property rights

Lincoln vs Stephen Douglas for Senator of Illinois; Lincoln lost but gained national prominence; Lincoln - slavery should not be banned in the states where it already exists but should not spread into new areas; Douglas - slavery should be decided by popular sovereignty in the territories

John Brown raided the federal arsenal here because he wanted to get guns from arsenal to arm slaves; Brown was caught & executed

Lincoln (Republican) won; resulted in the secession of South Carolina

promises not to abolish slavery or attack the South - "we are not enemies but friends"

Commander of the Confederate army

General of the Union Army; elected 18th President; supported by African Americans; administration was plagued by scandals

16th President of the United States saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865)

the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861