APUSH Unit 5

<<People:<<

==John Brown:== A fanatic anti-slavery leader. Killed lots of pro-slavery people.

==Preston Brooks:== Andrew Butlers cousin, beat up Charles Sumner

==Charles Sumner:== Got beaten up by Preston Brooks for insulting his cousin

==Andrew Butler:== Preston Brooks cousin, U.S. Senator for South Carolina. Authored the Kansas- Nebraska act.

==Harriet Beecher Stowe:== Pointed out the contradictions between being a Christian and supporting slavery. Wrote Uncle Toms Cabin.

==Lyman Beecher:== Harriet Beecher Stowe Father, A famous Presbyterian minister during the Second Great Awakening

==Dred Scott==: An enslaved person

==Abraham Lincoln:== 16th president

@@Jefferson Finis Davis:@@ President of the confederacy

@@William Boss Tweed:@@

<<Kansas-Nebraska Act:<<

• Formed the Republican Party
• Went against the Missouri Compromise
• Left the Free-State/Slave-State open to popular sovereignty
• People from both sides rushed into Kansas

<<Caning of Charles Sumner:<<

• Preston Brooks beat Charles Sumner with a cane for insulting his cousin(‘s mistress)
• The Norths reaction: Were horrified by the act
• The Souths reaction: Thought he was a hero and sent him canes with the phrase, “Hit him again”
• Along side, Bleeding Kansas, it foreshadowed that the slavery issue could only be resolved through violence.

<<Dred Scott v Sandford:<<

• Dred Scott sued for his freedom on the ground that he lived in a free territory.
• Ruling 1: Slaves were property so therefor they did not have the right to sue in court.
• Ruling 2: The Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional

<<Uncle Toms Cabin:<<

• Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe (She was upset at how slaves were treated)
• Tells the story of how badly enslaved people were treated

<<The Election of 1860<<

Campaigners and their parties:

• Abraham Lincoln - Winner! Republican

• Brekinridge - Southern Democrat

• Douglas - Northern Democrat

• Bell - Constitutional Union

• Lincoln wasn’t even put on the ballot in southern states

• Lincoln campaigned on the homestead act

• Advantages the North had in the civil war:

  • Industrialized economy, so better weapons
  • Money, and population
  • They felt like they had a moral cause

• Advantages to South had in the civil war

  • They had the defense
  • Better Military academies
  • There citizens was more prepared for war

<<Homestead Act:<<

• Provided 160 acres of federal land to anyone who agreed to farm the land.
• Led to western expansion

<<The Civil War:<<

• How it started:

  • The attack on Fort Sumter

• The Souths Strategy:

  • To rely on Britain to intervene

• The Norths Strategy:

  • The anaconda plan

• @@Total warfare -@@ Everyone in society is contributing to the war in someway

• @@Sherman’s March to Sea -@@ He marched through Georgia, and destroyed everything that they came across. They were committing war crimes.

<<Rich Man’s war, Poor man’s fight<<

<<Reconstruction:<<

• Lincoln plan before he got assassinated:
  • Reunify the country as quickly as possible
• Andrew Jackson’s plan:
  • Allowed the south to do whatever they wanted as long as it followed the 13th amendment

- Congress realized Jackson wasn’t doing anything so they stepped in.

@@Measures put in place by the Republican (majority) congress:@@

• Civil Rights Act - everyone born in the US is a citizen
• 14th amendment - Citizenship
• 15th amendment - Black men can vote and be in congress
• Reconstruction act - divided south into 5 military districts

<<William Boss Tweed<<