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Continental Congress Bans Slave Trade
~ The US congress passed an act to "prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within jurisdiciton of the US...from any foreign kingdom, place, or country."
~ By the time of the American Revolution the ENglish importers alone had brought some 3 million captive Africans to the Americas.
~ After the war most northern states passes legislation to abolish slavery.
~ Tension arose between the North and the South as the slave or free status of new states was debated. -
Missouri Compromise
~ Tensions began to rise between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions within the US congress and across the country.
~in 1819 Missouri requested for admission to the union as a slave state.
~ Congress orchestrated a 2 part comprimise granting Missouri's request.
~ It passed an amendment that drew an imaginary line across the former Louisiana territory. -
Spoils System
~The practice began during the administration of President Andrew Jackson, who took office in 1829.
~Jackson's political opponents had a very different interpretation, as they considered his method to be a corrupt use of political patronage.
~Spoils System was considered to be a derogatory nickname.
~Published reports in the 19th century claimed that Jackson's policy accounted for nearly 700 government officers losing their jobs in 1829, -
Manifest Destiny
~ The period of expansion for the US to stretch from coast to coast.
~ The progress of liberty and individual economic opportunity.
~ It gained republican adherents.
~ It was the nations 'Manifest Destiny' to extend its influence beyond its continental boundaries. -
Kansas- Nebraska Act
~The Kansas-Nebrask Act was a bill that mandated popular sovereignty.
~ Popular sovereignty is allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state’s borders.
~It was proposed by Stephen A. Douglas.
~Stephen A. Douglas was Abraham Lincoln’s opponent in the influential Lincoln-Douglas debates -
Dred Scott Case
~ Dred Scott was a slave who had livedwith his owner in a free state before returning to Missouri.
~Scott argued that his time spent in these locations entitled him to emancipation.
~Scott’s lawyers eventually appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
~Republicans assailed the decision, which they saw as an attempt to destroy their nascent party. Democrats divided over the Dred Scott case. -
Anaconda Plan
~The Anaconda Plan was a strategy created by Union General Winfield Scott in 1861, early on in the Civil War.
~It was the Union’s strategic plan to defeat the Confederacy.
~The Union wanted to block the south from the world. They did this by controling the Mississippi river port.
~They wanted to attack the south and defeat them with the Union’s overwhelming military and industrial might. -
Emancipation Proclamation
~The proclimation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
~ It applied only to states that had seceded from the Union.
~By the end of the war, almost 200,000 black soldiers and sailors had fought for the Union and freedom.
~The Emancipation Proclamation confirmed the black's insistence that the war for the Union must become a war for freedom. -
Sherman's March
~General Sherman’s troops captured Atlanta on September 2, 1864.
~After they lost Atlanta, the Confederate army headed west into Tennessee and Alabama, attacking Union supply lines
~Major General George Thomas took some 60,000 men to meet the Confederates in Nashville, while Sherman took the remaining 62,000 on an offensive march through Georgia to Savannah
~Sherman’s “total war” in Georgia was brutal and destructive, but it did just what it was supposed to do: it hurt Southern morale, made it -
Transcontinental Railroad
~The First Transcontinental Railroad was built crossing the western half of America and it was pieced together between 1863 and 1869
~ It was 1,776 miles long and served for the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States to be connected by rail for the first time in history
~They chose two independent companies, the Union Pacific Railroad and Central Pacific Railroad and supported the project by issuing US government bonds.
~ It was also known as the Pacific Railroad
