benchmark history 3

what are the events in order

1. Missouri Compormise

2. Nuflication Crisis ( south Carolina)

3. Wilmot Priviso

4. Compromise of 1850

5. Uncle Tom’s Cabin

6. Kansas - Nebraska

7. Dred Scott Surpreme Court Case

8. Lincoln - Douglas Debate

9. John Brown’s raid

10. Lincoln election

when was the Moussouri compromise

1820

Why did it happen:

Compromise kept the balance of slave states and free states the same

Terms:

Missouri = admitted as a slave state

Maine breaks away from Massachusetts and is admitted as a slave state

36/30 latitude line - slavery outlawed North of the Line

Henry Clay = Negotiator/great compromiser

Compromise of 1850: Why did it happen?

California asked to enter the union as a slave state

What were the terms?

Making California a free state

2. D.C. - ____slave trade_________________________ banned

3. Utah and Mexico New Territories

4. Settling the Texas Boundary

5. Fugitive Slave Act

5. Fugitive Slave Act

made the laws stricter than they were - allowed southern slave owners to send agents to recapture slaves in the North

Bleeding Kansas:When:

1854 - 1856 - Kansas and Nebraska

Why did it happen?

was caused by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which mandated "popular sovereignty," allowing settlers to vote on whether Kansas would allow slavery

Outcome:

Small-scale Civil War

By the end of 1856, more than 200 deaths and 2 million in property damage

Sumner - Brooks affair - the “canning” (Sumner gets beaten by Brooks)

John Brown:

John Brown was a radical American abolitionist who believed armed insurrection was the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery. He gained notoriety for his violent actions

free and arm slaves, and begin an insurrection (rebellion)

Kansas-Nebraska Act:

Repeals the compromise ( gets rid of)

Divides the remaining land of the Louisiana Purchase into Nebraska and Kansas

People decided - popular sovereignty

Why was it needed? KN act

to organize the vast, unsettled Louisiana Purchase territory to allow for the construction of a northern transcontinental railroad route

What did it settle? KN act

The organization of Kansas and Nebraska, and the free states and the slave states

What is popular sovereignty?

to vote

How did it cause problems/ concerns?

Canceled out the Mossouri compromise - Northerners were outraged by the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which allowed slavery where it was outlawed, and made the people angry

Underground Railroad

a secret, informal network of routes, safe houses, and abolitionists—both Black and white—that helped enslaved people in the American South escape to free states and Canada between the late 18th century and the Civil War

Harriet Tubman:

a renowned American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Civil War spy who escaped slavery in Maryland to become a leading "conductor" on the Underground Railroad.

Harriet Beecher Stowe/ Uncle Tom’s Cabin:

An American author - wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin - Became the bestselling book of the 19th century

Slaves presented as real people imprisoned in dreadful conditions

Southerners try to get it banned - the book is “distorted” and has “falsehoods.”

Harper’s Ferry:

a historic town in West Virginia located at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers, famous as the site of John Brown’s 1859 abolitionist raid.

Election of 1860:

Stephen Douglas:

Political party: Democracy

Viewpoint: supports Pop Sov - slavery

Election of 1860: Abraham Lincoln:

Political party: Republican

Viewpoint: Lincoln does not want slavery to spread west

Civil War

When did the Civil War happen? 1861 

Civil War How did it start?:

The Confederate bombardment of Federal-held Fort Sumter in South Carolina

John C. Calhoun

Where was he from?

South Carolina.

john C. Calhoun

What did he do?

century American statesman, political theorist, and vice president who became the leading proponent of states' rights, minority rights for the white South, and the intense defense of slavery.

Gold Rush Cali

The discovery of gold in San Francisco____________ led to a flood of Americans to California in 1849

b. “__Forty-Niners_________” hoping to strike it rich came from the East, Latin America, Europe, & Asia____

c. The California gold rush___________ led to a population boom in the West

devastated the environment via hydraulic mining,

and made merchants, rather than most miners, wealthy