After Exam 2

• FLO


  Freedom, Liberty and Opportunity
• 1. A-A-A


  American vs American in America about an American
• Human Cost of the Civil War

  • The civil War lasted from 1861 to 1865 and led to over 618,000 casualties
• The National Question


  Whether new states admitted to the union would be slave or free?
• Missouri Compromise


  1. An agreement passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress, involving primarily the regulation of enslavement in the western territories

  2. It prohibited enslavement in the former Louisiana Territory …except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri
• Wilmot Proviso 1846


  Banned enslavement in any territory to be acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War
• Kansas Nebraska Act


  1. (1854) created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands that would help settlement

  2. Repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and allowed settlers int hose territories to determine if they would allow slavery within their boundaries
• Southern States that Seceded

  • South Carolina
  • Mississippi
  • Florida
  • Alabama
  • Georgia
  • Louisiana
  • Texas
• Fugitive Slave Act of 1850


  • Brought the federal government into the business of returning runaway enslaved Africans
  • A national Triumph for the southern view of enslavement
  • The northern free black person was forced to depend on ''southern justice'' when returned
• Southern Justice


  Lynching because it was brutal and graphic and to discourage Slaves to run away from their masters
• Dred Scott Decision
• The Civil War began with the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter S.C

  April 1861
• Resistance to Blacks serving in the Army during the Civil War

  • To call and depend on Black Americans implied their (White Southerner) inadequacies
  • Arming Blacks meant arming potential rebels
  • Serving in the armed forces would change the social attitude and status of Black Americans and thus pose a problem for white southern rule and power
• The Civil war ended with the surrender of Gen. Robert E. Lee to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant

  April 9 1865