Download - Warm Up – Practice MSL Questions
1. In response to the Alien and Sedition Acts, the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions established what precedent?
A. The right of citizens to nullify federal laws
B. The right of the federal government to nullify state laws
C. The right of states to nullify federal laws
2. What was a common theme among the writers of the Transcendentalist movement?
A. ReligionB. IndividualityC. conformity
WARM UP – PRACTICE MSL QUESTIONS
3. What was a result of the Second Great Awakening?
A. Abolitionists suffered setbacks in their goals
B. Working class values of temperance and a strong work ethic became unpopular
C. Reformers were inspired to resolve slaver and other social ill’s, including women’s rights
4. Which of the following is most likely a result of the US victory in the Battle of New Orleans?
A. Nationalism surgedB. The British become the dominant
military in North AmericaC. The resistance of Native Americans is
strengthened
Turn to a partner & share:Imagine the last argument you had with a friend, family member, etc. (or the last break-up!) Describe the argument (what was it about, how did it end)
Now reflect, did the argument happen over just one single issue? OR was it after a series of other things that person did to get on your nerves?
DO NOW
THE LONG ROAD TO CIVIL WAR
NORTH AND SOUTH ECONOMIES
Northern economy ~ manufacturing based
Southern economy ~ agriculture based
Factory versus Farm
SLAVERY IN THE SOUTH
FEARS OF SOUTHERN WHITES• Mississippi, Louisiana, South Carolina ~
Slaves were in the majority• Alabama, Georgia, Florida ~ Slaves made up ½ the population
Fear that the abolition of slavery would lead to a revolution that would doom the South:“…to the greatest calamity, and the [South] to poverty, desolation, and wretchedness.”
A series of compromises failed to solve the issues of slavery and states' rights for the long termCompromise of 1820 (Missouri Compromise)
Wilmot ProvisoCompromise of 1850
FAILED COMPROMISES
MISSOURI COMPROMISE (1820)
• Maine admitted as free state• Missouri admitted as a slave– Preserves sectional balance in the
senate b/w slave states and free states• Louisiana Territory divided in ½ @
the 36”30’– North of the line is free– South of the line is slave
WILMOT PROVISO (1846)• Failed proposal to BAN all slavery
in any territory acquired from the Mexican-American War
COMPROMISE OF 1850• California admitted to the Union as
a free state• Utah and New Mexico territories
decide about slavery• Sale of slaves banned in D.C.• Fugitive Slave Act required people
in free states to help capture and return escaped slaves
• Establishes Popular SovereigntyPOPULAR SOVEREIGNTY: Idea that voters in a territory- not Congress- should decide whether or not to allow slavery there
KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT (1854)
• Divides territory in ½– Nebraska to the North– Kansas to the South
• Repeals the Missouri Compromise• Tests the policy of popular
sovereignty
BLEEDING KANSASWho: Violence between pro-slavery and
Abolitionists settlersWhen: lasts from 1854 until war breaks
outWhat: Ongoing fighting over the issue of
whether Kansas would be slave or free.
Example: John Brown and his sons pulled five settlers from their homes and butchered them to death with swords in Pottawatamie Creek, Kansas
UNCLE TOM ’S CABIN1852 book by
Harriet Beecher Stowe on the conditions of slavery
emphasized the emotional aspect and break up of families
When Lincoln met Stowe, he said “so this is the little lady that started this great war.”
His slave master brought him to live for a time in free territory and the free state of Illinois, but eventually returned to Missouri (slave state).
Dred Scott felt that because he had lived in a free territory, he should be free.
Decision: Supreme Court ruled that African Americans were not and could never be citizens. Dred Scott had no right to even file a lawsuit and remained enslaved.
Question: How does this case relate to the case of Marbury v. Madison?
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
LINCOLN FOR SENATOR
1858 ~ Illinois Republicans chose Abraham Lincoln to run for senator of Illinois against Stephen A. Douglas
Lincoln stated: “A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.”
Lincoln vs. Douglas Debates5’4” Stephen A. Douglas
6’4” Abraham Lincoln
1858 campaig
n for Illinois senator
LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES
LincolnSlavery is immoralSlavery cannot extend into the new territories
DouglasPopular sovereignty is betterSlavery would eventually end on it ’s own
** Significance: Lincoln puts his name on the map and becomes the Republican nominee for President
Emergence of Lincoln’s Party: The Republicans
Includes:•Free Soilers (no slavery in new territories)•Abolitionists•Whigs (support Big Business and manufacturing)•Northern “Know Nothings” (anti-immigrant party)
BIRTH OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
Horace Greeley describes the new party:“[The Republicans] have the heart, the conscience and the understanding of the people with them…All that is noble, all that is true, all that is pure, all that is manly, and estimable in human character, goes to swell the power of the anti-slavery party of the North.”The Republican Party formed in opposition to the Kansas
Nebraska Act
Election of 1860
Election of 1860
“In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you…. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defect.”
What is the leading issue heading into the Civil War for the nation?
If you were in the shoes of Abraham Lincoln, how would you address the major nation-splitting issue of slavery? What would you do to try to reconcile the nation?
LINCOLN’S FIRST INAUGURAL
“I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature”
LINCOLN’S FIRST INAUGURAL
CAUSES OF CIVIL WAR
Long-Term CausesConflict over Slavery in territoriesEconomic differences b/w North and South
Tariffs of 1816, 1828, 1832Conflict b/w states’ rights and Fed. Control
Tariffs, slavery
Immediate CauseElection of Lincoln
South feels that their political voice will no longer be heard
Secession of Southern StatesFiring on Ft. Sumter
FOLDABLE
Now, using a sheet of computer paper, you will create a foldable that illustrates 6 of the major causes of the Civil War. On the front you will illustrate it, then inside it should contain a description as well as HOW it led to the Civil War
It’s depictions of slavery created much
controversy. Northern abolitionists were energized, while
southerners reacted with hatred.
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin”Bestseller by
Harriet Beecher Stowe