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Northwest Ordinance
After winning the 7 years war the US got the Northwest territory. NW ordinance told how a nation was to deal with its colonies. Which was temporary support then equality. 2 evolutionary territorial states that would be under control of federal govt and when it reached 60000 ppl it can be made a state and it forbade slavery in the northwest.precedent for 3630? Once again does congress have the power to forbid slavery the supreme court said no because of the 5th ammendment ad slaves were property. -
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Religious Changes/ Second Great Awakening
Second Great Awakening arose from the rise in liberal religions such as deism and unitarianism. Revivals began in the south and continued to the northeast sweeping up more people than the first Great awakening and was spread through camp meetings and feminized religion. This made people want to get rid of the evils of society and sparked new reform movements such as prison, temperance, womens movements and set up a religious and educational infrastructure. -
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Plantation Life for Slaves and free African Americans
Cotton was king and slaves were the main way to get the cotton. They lived in seperate quarters and disease would wipe out the whole quarter. They were worked heavily to keep up with the demand. Women who bore 10+ babies were "free" Free blacks were seen as a third race, they couldn't work in certain occupationand couldn't testify against whites in court and were always in danger of being put back into slavery. Up north Free blacks and irish had beef because they were both fighting for low jobs. -
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Women's Roles: Women Revolting: Seneca Falls.
Women were a large part of the upbringing of children, mothers were to instruct children in matters of religion and ethics. They also were a large part of reforms because they could be part of public affairs, At the time women were still inferior and the female reformers met at Seneca falls to give the Declaration of Sentiment and this led to women getting admitted to college and to gain property after marriage. -
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Science, Literature, Art, and Transcendentalism
Early Americans wanted usedul things more than pure science. Americans were best known for adapting and borrowing the findings of europeans. Medicine was primitive until 1840s when laughing gas and anesthetics were employed. Thomas Jefferson was the ablest architect in America however art was handicapped, lack of wealthy class to buy art, nationalism rose so they painted local landscapes. Not much good literature at first boosted by War of 1812 trans. golden age 2/4 of 19th century, nopuritanism -
Missouri Compromise
Missouri applied for statehood however, it wanted to be a slave state and if admitted it would ruin the balance of congress. Henry lay then said okay Missosuri can become a slave state but Maine will become a free state in order to preserve the balance and the 36º 30’ line showed where slavery was no longer allowed (Above it). This then becomes a problem because it shows that congress can make laws about slavery the peoples property that can not be taken away from the according to the 5th ammend -
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Tyler as President
Tyler became president because Harrison died. Tyler joined the whigs because he hated Jackson not necesarily because he agreed with them and basically on every major issue tyler and the whigs were at odds with eachother. Tyler struck down the national bank. He was then kicked out of the whig party and kept butting heads with the whigs. -
polk and mexican american war
Under the threat of war, theUnited Stateshad refrained from annexing Texas. President John Tyler restarted negotiations with the Republic of Texas. The Treaty of Annexation, the treaty was defeated by a wide margin in the Senate because it would upset the slave state/free state balance. It risked war with Mexico, which had broken off relations with the United State. Mexico didn’t follow through with its threat to declare war, relations between the two nations remained tense over border disputes -
Taylor's foregin policy
the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, was Taylor's last act of state. It proved to be a landmark agreement. Both sides agreed to renounce control or dominion over any canal that might be built. The treaty effectively weakened U.S. commitment to Manifest Destiny. The plan was opposed by the British, but it was him most important foreign policy move. -
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zachary taylor
a general and national hero in the United States Army from the time of the Mexican-American War and the War of 1812, was elected the 12th U.S. President, serving from March 1849 until his death in July 1850. Born in Virginia in 1784, he was taken as an infant to Kentucky and raised on a plantation but Taylor did not defend slavery or southern sectionalism -
Compromise of 1850
This act was a series of five laws passed due to slavery. It defused a four year confrontation between the southern slave states and the northern Free states following the Mexican American War. Drafted by Whig Henry Clay and brokered by Democrat Stephen Douglas it temporarily avoided secession or civil war at the time and it quieted a sectional conflict for 4 years. It was an admission of California as a free state, has a passage of a more stringent fugitive-slave act. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This novel was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, sister of the abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher, daugther of Lyman Beecher. As Lincoln said " so you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war". Across the north, readers became alerted of slavery, but the south, the book was met with an outrage and branded an irresponsible book of distortions and overstatements. Therefore causing a great amount of sectionalism throughout the country, starting the civil war. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This act brought the idea of 'popular sovereignty', in which the people decided on the slave state on the state's borders.It would also divide the territory of Nebraska and Kansas to be determined by popular sovereignty. It repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, permitted the expansion of slavery beyond the Southern States and that led to sectionalism due to the slave and free states that have been established, It also slit the Democratic Party, sparked the Republican Party. -
Caning of Charles Sumner
Senator Charles Sumner, Massachusetts, gave a speech on" the crime against Kansas" on pro-slavery man, "hirelings picked from the drunken spew and vomit of an uneasy civilization ”.Insulted Senator Andrew Butler, S. Carolina
His nephew, Preston Brooks ( beat him up with a cane to unconsciousness) which kept him away from from the senate for the next several years. Conflict resolt between the speeches given by the two and de-unification started to occur amongst the nation altogether. -
Election of James Buchanan
James Buchanan, a Democrat, succeeded Pierce as the President of the United States. He had a strong southern influence and approved of the Lecompton Constitution, that admitted Kansas into the Union as a slave state. Eventually, a compromise was reached that enabled the people of Kansas to vote on the Lecompton Constitution, itself. It was revoked by the abolitionists voters, but Kansas ended up remaining a territory until 1861, when the southern states seceded from the Union. -
Dred Scott vs. Stanford
The decision made was that Dred Scott was a slave and couldn't sue in federal court. Under the constitution, slaves are just property and no matter where they went they should be considered a slave. The ruling invalidated the Nothwest Ordinance of 1787 and the Missouri Comprimise of 1820, also bringing them closer to war between them. It alos permitted the expansion of slavery beyond the Southern states. -
The Panic of 1857/ Financial Crash of 1857
Caused due to over-speculation in the West and currency inflation due to the inrush of Californian gold.The North was the hardest hit, while the South continued to flourish with its cotton. Northerners came up with the idea of the government giving 160-acre plots of farming land to pioneers for free.Two groups opposed the idea,Eastern industrialists feared that it would drain its supply of workers, and the South feared that the West would fill up with free-soilers which would unbalance it more. -
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John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
John Brown, abolitionist led a small army of 18 men into the small town of "HARPER'S FERRY", Virginia. His plan was to instigate a major slave rebellion in the South. He would seize the arms and ammunition in the federal arsenal, arm slaves in the area and move south along the Appalachian Mountains, attracting slaves to his cause. He had no rations or any escape route. His plan was doomed from the very beginning. But it did succeed to deepen the divide between the North and South. -
The election of 1860
During this electorial vote Abraham Lincoln was elected as the 16th president of the United States, being the first Republican to win the presidency. He won with a popular vote over that of Stephen A. Douglas (U.S senator for Illinois), Democratic.The Republican accepted slavery where it existed but opposed the further extension of slavery into the territories. Led by South Carolina,resulting to seven southern states to sucede from the Union.
