PAGE 345 #'S 1,2, 3, 4, & 7

Adam Hopf 5/19/08
F-Block History Page 345 #'s 3, 4 & 7
1. DEFINE
CONFEDERACY: the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861
MARTIAL LAW: the body of law imposed by the military over civilian affairs (usually in time of war or civil crisis); overrides civil law
2. ID
-John C. Breckenridge: was a lawyer, U.S. Representative, Senator from Kentucky, Vice President of the United States, Southern Democratic candidate for President in 1860, (January 16, 1821 – May 17, 1875)
-John Bell: 1797–1869, American statesman, b. near Nashville, Tenn. A leading member of the Nashville bar, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1827–41), was speaker in 1834, and for a few weeks in 1841 was Secretary of War under President William Henry Harrison.
-Crittenden's Compromise: The Crittenden Compromise (December 18, 1860) was an unsuccessful proposal by Kentucky Senator John J. Crittenden to resolve the U.S. secession crisis of 1860–1861 by addressing the concerns that led the states in the Deep South of the United States to contemplate secession.
-Jefferson Davis: American statesman; president of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War (1808-1889)
3.LIST
*Article 2: Congress shall have no power to abolish slavery in places under its exclusive jurisdiction, and situate within the limits of States that permit the holding of slaves.
*Article 4: Congress shall have no power to prohibit or hinder the transportation of slaves from one State to another, or to a Territory, in which slaves are by law permitted to be held, whether that transportation be by land, navigable river, or by the sea.
4. CIVING RIGHTS
To prevent the lower border states from seceding Lincoln issued Martial Law which suspended the civil rights of the states population preventing them from seceding.
7. ANAYLYSING POLITICAL CARTOON
The cartoon depicts Lincolns victory in the 1860 election and his rail which i think was his political platform which swept the north and making him president with “NO” southern support at all. It split the union giving the nickname Rail Splitter.

Packet Questions #s 6, 7 & 8

6) The supreme court ruled against Dred Scott on the terms that since Scott was a slave he himself could not sue the government as well as that the Federal GOVT could not prohibit slavery in territories.

7) Lincoln viewed slavery as wrong while Douglas viewed slavery as a choice & based his principles & views on popular sovereignty.

8) Johns raid was to arm slaves and attempt a Coup/insurrection against slave holders.

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1)DEFINE

• UNDERGROUND RAILROAD: The Underground Railroad was an informal network of secret routes and safe houses that 19th century African slaves in the United States used to escape to free states (or as far north as Canada) with the aid of abolitionists.
• TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD: The First Transcontinental Railroad was completed on May 10, 1869, with the golden spike ceremonially driven at Promontory, Utah, after track was laid over a 1,756 mile (2,826 km) gap between Sacramento and Omaha in six years by the Union Pacific Railroad and Central Pacific Railroad.

2) ID

• UNCLE TOMS CABIN: highly effective, sentimental Abolitionist novel.


• FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT: The fugitive slave laws were statutes passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another or into a public territory.


• HARRIET TUBMAN: United States abolitionist born a slave on a plantation in Maryland and became a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad leading other slaves to freedom in the North (1820-1913)


• GADSDEN PURCHASE: The Gadsden Purchase (known as Venta de La Mesilla in Mexico) is a 45,535 mi² (76,770 km²) region of what is today southern Arizona and New Mexico that was purchased by the United States from Mexico in 1853.


• KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT: The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and opened new lands for settlement, and allowed the settlers to decide whether or not to have slavery.


• CHARLES SUMMER: Charles Summers (27 July 1825 – 30 November 1878) was an English-born Australian sculptor, creator of the memorial to the explorers Burke and Wills.

3) the transcontinental railroad devdied the north & south and incrased the argument about slavery

6) ON A SEPERATE SHEET OF PAPER

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1) DEFINE THE FOLLOWING

• POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY: The doctrine that sovereign power is vested in the people and that those chosen by election to govern or to represent must conform to the will of the people.
• SECESSION: Secession (derived from the Latin term secessio) is the act of withdrawing from an organization, union, or political entity.

2) ID THE FOLLOWING

• WILMOT PROVISO: The Wilmot Proviso was introduced on August 8, 1846 in the House of Representatives as a rider on a $2 million appropriations bill intended for the final negotiations to resolve the Mexican-American War.
• LEWIS CASS: Lewis Cass (October 9, 1782 – June 17, 1866) was an American military officer and politician. During his long political career, Cass served as a territorial governor, an American ambassador, a U.S. Senator, and was the nominee of the Democratic Party for President of the United States in 1848.
• CONSCIENCE WHIGS: The "Conscience" Whigs were a faction of the Whig Party in Massachusetts noted for their moral opposition to slavery.
• COTTON WHIGS: The conservative Cotton Whigs were noted as opponents of "Conscience" Whigs.
• FREE-SOIL PARTY: A former political party in the United States; formed in 1848 to oppose the extension of slavery into the territories; merged with the Liberty Party in 1848
• “49ers”: Is derived from 1849, the California Gold Rush and is used to describe the gold prospectors that came to California during the gold rush.

3) SUMMERIZE THE FOLLOWING
Popular Sovereignty was the idea to allow the citizens of a state to decide weather or not the wanted to be free or Slave not leave it up to the politicians, the idea & response to this was that Southern states were for it as at the time the power of Slave & Free was in favor of the North “FREE” and hope that popular sovereignty would balance it out.

4) GEO & HIS
the U.S gained 500,000sq miles of land from the war with Mexico the dispute of slavery was amplified with the discovery of gold the idea of using slaves to mine gold California at the time was a free state opposing slavery and using slaves to mine gold was against they state title “FREE STATE”

TERMINOLOGY PAPER

• POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY: The doctrine that sovereign power is vested in the people and that those chosen by election to govern or to represent must conform to the will of the people.
• WILMOT PROVISO: The Wilmot Proviso was introduced on August 8, 1846 in the House of Representatives as a rider on a $2 million appropriations bill intended for the final negotiations to resolve the Mexican-American War.
• “49ers”: Is derived from 1849, the California Gold Rush and is used to describe the gold prospectors that came to California during the gold rush.
• COMPROMISE OF 1850: A series of laws that attempted to resolve the territorial and slavery controversies arising from the Mexican-American War (1846–1848).
• FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT: The fugitive slave laws were statutes passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another or into a public territory.
• UNDERGROUND RAILROAD: The Underground Railroad was an informal network of secret routes and safe houses that 19th century African slaves in the United States used to escape to free states (or as far north as Canada) with the aid of abolitionists.
• GADSDEN PURCHASE: The Gadsden Purchase (known as Venta de La Mesilla in Mexico) is a 45,535 mi² (76,770 km²) region of what is today southern Arizona and New Mexico that was purchased by the United States from Mexico in 1853.
• KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT: The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and opened new lands for settlement, and allowed the settlers to decide whether or not to have slavery.
• BLEEDING KANSAS: Bleeding Kansas, sometimes referred to in history as Bloody Kansas or the Border War, was a sequence of violent events involving Free-States (anti-slavery) and pro-slavery "Border Ruffians"
• DRED SCOTT DECISION: was a lawsuit, pivotal in the history of the United States, decided by the United States Supreme Court in 1857 that ruled that people of African descent, whether or not they were slaves, could never be citizens of the United States, and that Congress had no authority to prohibit slavery in federal territories. The decision for the court was written by Chief Justice Roger Taney.

HISTORY

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F-Block History Slavery Essay

Slavery is described as "The status and/or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised". When looking through out history evidence of slavery can be found in every culture and on every continent since civilization was created, they were used in Rome, Egypt even dating back as far as Babylon. During Colonial Times slaves were used as cheep manual labor on plantations doing mostly agricultural work back then there was no difference between a black slave or a plow mule they both had no status in society and basically treated somewhat the same. Years later the Abolitionist Movement came to power and created two fractions the Abolitionists party and the Anti-Abolitionists party this resulted in the creation of slave & non-slave states once Manifest Destiny was finally fulfilled and the United States stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean. Slavery denied people there basic human rights of Life, Liberty & the pursuit of happiness. Being a slave they did lived but not how they wanted to live their life, they had no liberty as they were control and restricted by the owner and they were clearly not happy or pursuing their dreams in life. slaves were also denied a fair trial with a jury of his/her peers as every person was white and they were immediately guilty for being a slave and/or black, they couldn’t own property not even there children, they could not choose who they were to marry and counted a three-fifths of a person for purposes of representation. When Civil War erupted the country split in half resulting in the United States of America and the Confederate States of America many battles were fought during the Civil war such as the battle of Shiloh the second great battle of the American Civil War in 1862 the battle ended with the withdrawal of Confederate troops but it was not a Union victory and The Battle of Gettysburg a battle that lead to the defeat of Robert E. Lee's invading Confederate Army which was a major victory for the Union. Later on Sept/1862 President Abe Lincoln Signed his Emancipation Proclamation that ended slavery.