1. Sectionalism and the Civil War Ms. Garratt

2. NORTHSOUTH Industrial River Power Harsh winters Wage labor  Agrarian (cotton, tobacco)  Slave labor  Mild weather all year

3.  California -  Compromise of 1850 CA as free state Fugitive Slave Law DC Popular Sovereignty (letting the people decide whether or not to allow slavery) in NM & UT territories  Secession

4.  Fugitive Slave Law  Slaves denied trials  Vigilance committees  Harriet Tubman – conductor

10.  First test of popular sovereignty in Kansas.  Supporters and opponents of slavery moved in to populate KS  Election took place but 1000s of border ruffians illegally voted  Lecompton gov set up.  Anti-slavery forces set up rival gov  Violence breaks out and KS earns the title of bleeding KS

13.  Opponents of the KS-NE Act form the Republican Party.  Opposed to slavery in the new territories.  Whigs, Free Soilers, Democrats & other parties joined.  Chief goal was to resurrect the Missouri Compromise  Election of 1856 John C. Fremont was their candidate.  Had Fremont won many believe that the South would have seceded then

17.  Wanted to organize slaves & lead a rebellion.  Attacked Harpers Ferry (a federal arsenal)  The slave uprising Brown hoped for never occurred.  Federal troops put down the uprising.  Brown was tried & excuted  In the North church bells rang, guns fired salutes.  They considered Brown a martyr  South became more paranoid  Some whites suspected of anti-slavery views were attacked by mobs.

19.  1860 election  Lincoln was a moderate  Opposed extension of slavery into new territories but reassured South that he would not interfere with their slaves  HE NEVER THREATENED TO END SLAVERY.  South felt threatened by him  His name didn’t even appear on the ballots of most southern states

20.  Question of “states rights” v federal control  SC was first to secede followed by 10 other states  Set up confederate gov in Montgomery  Jefferson Davis - president

21.  Chart on page 169