Sectionalism, Civil War and Reconstruction

Tariffs, slavery, sectionalism, Uncle Tom's Cabin, states; rights and election of Lincoln all led to

• Causes of the Civil War

• Causes of the War of 1812

• Nullification Crisis

• American Revolution

What happened because of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• Bleeding Kansas- violence between border ruffians and abolitionists over slavery

• Nebraska became a free states and Kansas a slave state. California enters as a free state.

• Texas became a slave state.

What contributed to the industrial advantage of the North during the Civil War?

• Greater access to natural resources like coal and iron

• Exclusive rights to cotton production

• Superior agricultural techniques

• More skilled labor due to higher education levels

What are the economic differences between the North and the South?

• North= manufacturing/South= agriculture and slaves

• North= slaves/South=immigrants

• North= plantations/South= Railroad

Dred Scott v. Sanford was a cause of the Civil War because

• It made it possible to move slaves so that the issue of expanding slavery was argued

• Told the Native Americans that they could not stay in Gerogia

• Established Judicial Review

After Lincoln is elected as president in 1860 what was the southern first reaction?

• South Carolina seceded from the Union

• The south decided to swallow their pride and stay with the Union and give up their slaves

Ulysses S. Grant

• Commander of the Union at the end of the Civil War

• President of the Confederate States of America

• President of the United States during the Civil War

What does this picture depict?

• Hiram Rhodes Revels takes Jefferson Davis' spot as a Senator from Mississippi

• Hiram Rhodes Revels becomes the first African American President of the U.S.

Both Lincoln and Davis gave inaugural speeches. What were they about?

• Lincoln= UNITED/Davis= SEPARATE

• Lincoln= UNITED/Davis= UNITED

• Lincoln=SEPARATE/Davis= UNITED

What was a common outcome of sharecropping for African American families post-Civil War?

• They were able to purchase their own land within a few years.

• It resulted in a perpetual cycle of debt and economic dependency.

• Sharecropping allowed them to quickly accumulate wealth and invest in other businesses.

• Most became successful commercial farmers exporting crops overseas.