Unit 9 - Events Leading to the Civil War

Movement to end slavery (a)  

• Secession
• Sectionalism
• Abolition

A political party formed by supporters of Andrew Jackson after the presidential election of 1824. The Democratic Party was proslavery.

• Democratic Party

• Republican Party

Anti-slavery Whigs and Democrats, Free Soldiers and reformers from the Northwest met and formed party to keep slavery out of the territories.

• Democratic Party

• Republican Party

Loyalty to one’s own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole.

• Abolition

• Sectionalism

• Secession

Formal withdrawal of states or regions from a nation 

• Abolition

• Sectionalism

• Secession

1858 Senate Debate, Lincoln forced Douglas to debate the issue of slavery, Lincoln asserted that slavery should not spread to territories. Lincoln emerged as a strong Republican candidate.

• John Brown’s Raid

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Lincoln –Douglas Debates

Created Kansas and Nebraska as states and gave the people in those territories the right to choose to be a free or slave state.

• John Brown’s Raid

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Lincoln –Douglas Debates

Men took over arsenal in Harper’s Ferry in Virginia, hoped to start a slave rebellion.

• John Brown’s Raid

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Lincoln –Douglas Debates

Missouri slave sued for his freedom. U.S. Supreme Court decided he couldn’t sue in federal court because he was property, not a citizen.

• Confederate States of America

• Dred Scott Decision

• Bleeding Kansas

A republic formed in February of 1861, composed of the eleven Southern states that seceded from the United States

• Confederate States of America

• Dred Scott Decision

• Bleeding Kansas