Unit 1 - Civil War and Reconstruction

Immediate, first - hand accounts of a topic. Ex: autobiography, government records, videos, diary, letter, photographs, Interview, newspaper from the time of the event.

Primary Source

A retelling of an event by a person who was not there. Ex: biography, textbook, historical essays, documentary, article analyzing a historical event, Encyclopedia.

Secondary Source

Job: create laws. Who: the senate and house of representative

Legislative Brach

Job: enforce laws. Who: the president

Executive Brach

Job: make sure laws are constitutional. Who: the supreme court and other federal courts.

Judicial Branch

Senate + House of Representatives

Congress

Senators in each state: 2

50 states = 100 total senators

Approves the bills the Representatives pass

Senate

Representatives in each state: it’s based on the total number of people in the state.

The more people in a state = the more representatives they can have.

The U.S Census Bureau counts the number of people in a state.

Is the first to vote on new bills and laws.

House of Representatives

Congress makes federal laws and represents the people. Checks and oversee the president and federal government (states must follow federal laws)

Job of Congress

Why would a state want more representatives?

More representatives give the state more influence and a stronger voice in Congress.

Abolished slavery in the early 1800’s.

Predominantly industrial.

Bigger cities =larger population.

Many schools and universities.

Northern States

Agricultural (farming). Used enslaved Africans for labor.

Small population. Enslaved Africans counted as 3/5’s of a person for the census.

Southern States

Why would Southern States want to count enslaved Africans in the census?

it would give them more representatives in Congress and more political power, even though enslaved people could not vote.

Why would Southern states want a balance between free states and slave states?

They want power in the Senate

the idea that it was America's God given right to spread westward across the continent

Manifest Destiny

People vote to decide an issue like slavery

Popular Sovereignty

As Americans move west, the country expands.

New states are created.

Will the new states be free or slave?

Effects of moving West

Both parts need to be happy with the outcome

Compromise

The Missouri Compromise of 1820

Missouri would become a slave state.

BUT! No more slavery above the 36°30 latitude line.

This is to keeps the balance between the free and slave states.

What could be an effect of the United States getting Spain's land?

Gain more land increased its power and influence

Loyalty to your region instead of the whole country. Involves political, economic, cultural differences.

Sectionalism

Differences over slavery, economic interests, and the expansion of slavery into new territories led to…

sectionalism

The South wants to expand slavery even if the new western states don't want it.

The North wants to stop slavery from spreading.

President Abraham Lincoln said, "A house divided against itself cannot stand."

What is the "house" he is referring to in the quote?

United States

What issue is dividing the "house"? According to Abraham Lincoln

Slavery

Which two sections fought against each other to control the other territory?

North and South fought to control the West

what does the term industrial mean?

The Northern States/Industrial Economy

related to factories, manufacturing

What is a tariff?

The Northern States/Supported tariffs

Taxes on imported goods

Life in the North States was…

Fast and paced

Where people from the northern states lived?

People lived in urban areas (Related to cities or towns)

What did the northern states think of slavery?

Morally wrong or suspicious

The economy of the north was based on…

manufacturing rather than agriculture

does the term agricultural mean?

The Southern States/Agricultural Economy

Related to farming and growing crops

Southern State used plantations which were…

Relied on slave labor (tobacco, cotton)

What group of people would actually grow and collect the crops on the plantation?

Slaved people

Life in the southern states was…

Slower paced lifestyle

Where people from the southern states lived?

People lived in rural areas (Countryside away from cities)

What did the southern states think of slavery?

Acceptable and necessary institution for their economic prosperity

The economy of the South was based on

Slavery, agricultural, farming

Why would people moving out (que se muda) west cause slavery to spread?

New territories could became slave states, allowing slavery to spread West.

Popular sovereignty means that people could vote on slavery. Bleeding Kansas was the violence between people who supported and opposed slavery in Kansas.

How the idea of ​​popular sovereignty led to Bleeding Kansas

Quote: “The right way to settle the question of slavery in the territories is to let the people who live there determine if their state is to be slave or free”

What is the solution proposed in the quotation to the right?

A) Sectionalism

B) Popular Sovereignty

C) Manifest Destiny

D) Nullification

B) Popular Sovereignty

The correct answer is B because people could decide whether it will be a slave or free territory.

The data shown in the graphs to the right best support which conclusion about the North?

A. The North was better prepared economically to fight the Civil War.

B. The North produced more agricultural products than the South.

C. The North lacked several important resources to fight the war.

D. The North lagged behind the South in bank deposits.

A. The North was better prepared economically to fight the Civil War.

The correct answer is A because it had more factories, industrial and resources.