Causes and Events of the Civil War

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  1. 2. On January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
  2. 4. The movement chiefly responsible for creating the emotional climate necessary for ending the transatlantic slave trade and chattel slavery
  3. 5. Also known as the GOP, is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. It emerged as the main political rival of the Democratic Party in the mid-1850s, and the two parties have dominated American politics since
  4. 10. A law passed by the 31st United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern interests in slavery and Northern Free-Soilers.
  5. 12. The Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished.
  6. 13. The party favors a mixed economy and generally supports a progressive tax system, higher minimum wages, Social Security, universal health care, public education, and subsidized housing. It also supports infrastructure development and clean energy investments to achieve economic development and job creation.
  7. 14. The South, was an unrecognized breakaway republic in the Southern United States that existed from February 8, 1861, to May 9, 1865.
  8. 15. In its 1857 decision that stunned the nation, the United States Supreme Court upheld slavery in United States territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional.
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  1. 1. This focuses on the struggles of a slave, Tom, who has been sold numerous times and has to endure physical brutality by slave drivers and his masters
  2. 3. A territorial organic act that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. It was drafted by Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas, passed by the 33rd United States Congress, and signed into law by President Franklin Pierce.
  3. 6. A staunch abolitionist, and a group of his supporters left their farmhouse hide-out en route. Descending upon the town in the early hours of October 17th, the men captured prominent citizens and seized the federal armory and arsenal.
  4. 7. A massacre occurred on the night of May 24–25, 1856, in the Kansas Territory, United States.
  5. 8. The bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the South Carolina militia. It ended with the surrender by the United States Army, beginning the American Civil War.
  6. 9. Abraham Lincoln won the presidential election of 1860 in a four-way contest. Although Lincoln received less than 40% of the popular vote, he easily won the Electoral College vote over Stephen Douglas, John Breckenridge, and John Bell.
  7. 11. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.