Road to Civil War

Led by groups that wanted to outlaw slavery throughout the U.S. Proslavery Southerners were forced to either leave the state or keep silent. Publications of antislavery literature like The Liberator and Uncle Tom’s Cabin fueled the group’s objective.

• Abolitionist

• Prison Reform

• Dred Scott Decision

• Election of 1860

Who won the Election of 1860

• Stephen A. Douglas

• Abraham Lincoln

• John Wilkes Booth

• Dred Scott

Allowed California to enter the Union as a free state, outlawed the slave trade in Washington D.C., gave popular sovereignty in New Mexico & Utah, & created a new tougher Fugitive Slave Law.

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Compromise of 1820

Admitted one slave state (Missouri) and one free state (Maine) to the Union; prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of the 36 30’ latitude line; the North was concerned with the expansion of slavery and the South learned the importance of maintaining a balance of free and slave state Senators.

• Compromise of 1850

• 3/5 Compromise

• The Great Compromise

• Missouri Compromise

Which state seceded after Lincoln won the Election of 1860?

• South Dakota

• California

• Missouri

• South Carolina

Supreme Court case that ruled African Americans were not citizens of the U.S. and slaves were considered property. The court also ruled that Congress could not pass measures limiting the expansion of slavery into the territories.

• Marbury v. Madison

• Gibbens v. Ogden

• Scott v. Sandford

• McCulloch v Maryland

An abolitionist led his men to an arsenal in Virginia with plans of starting a slave rebellion. They seized federal arsenal but his plan did not work; he was captured & executed.

• John Brown

• John Jay

• John Adams

• John Q. Adams

In 1832, John C. Calhoun of South Carolina argued states had the right to refuse to enforce a federal law if they felt it was unconstitutional; argued that a tax on imported goods would benefit the North only and hurt the South.

• Nullification Crisis

• Taxation without Representation

• Tariff of 1728

• Tea Tax

As the country spread west, ‘popular sovereignty’ was granted to new teritories, fueling the debate over the expansion of slavery which led to deadly arguments between proslavery and antislavery activists.

• Compromise of 1820

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

To withdraw or leave

• annex

• secede

• antebellum

• nullify