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Homework for US History                                                                                            Homework for Texas History

US History

Texas History/Pre-AP Texas History  ----

—    No Homework, but please make sure that you’ve read Chapter 12, Sections 2-4 this week!  We will have quizzes this week.

Causes of Civil War Poster Assignment; 16 questions due Friday, 2-12

Same as Texas for today....

 

 

 

 

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Causes of Civil War – For Texas History Posters

 

Step 1:  Wilmot Proviso - The North's sneaky plan to stop the expansion of slavery in the southwestern Mexican Cession lands.  The South is upset.

 

Step 2: Compromise of 1850 - A tough, new Fugitive Slave Law is born.  Northerners have to help capture runaway slaves or face fines or jail time. The North is upset.

 

Step 3:  Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 - Northerners notice that commissioners are ruling that African-Americans in question must be runaway slaves ($10) rather than free ($5).  The North is upset.

 

Step 4:  Uncle Tom's Cabin - written in 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe writes about the evilness of the institution of slavery and it becomes a best seller.  More northerners are turning abolitionist, southerners view the book as fiction and a false representation of slavery in the South.

 

Step 5:  Bleeding Kansas - Kansas settlers allowed to vote if they wanted to be a free or slave state.  Both anti-slavery and pro-slavery men illegally sneak across the border to vote - violence breaks out.  Both Northerners and Southerners are upset.

 

Step 6:  Caning of Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner - Sumner insults South Carolina Senator A.P. Butler, and Butler's nephew, Preston Brooks, finds Sumner at his desk and beats him with a cane over 30 times.  Sumner's cane breaks during the beating, and southerners send Brooks new canes.  Northerners are upset.

 

Step 7: Republican Party Born in 1854 - The political party promises to be tough on slavery and, at the very least, stop its expansion.  Southerners are upset.

 

Step 8:  Dred Scott v. Sandford - A Missouri slave is taken by his master to the states of Illinois and Wisconsin - both states declared slavery illegal.  Is Dred free?  No.  Supreme Court rules that slavery can not be restricted in any of the territories.  The North is upset.

 

Step 9:  Lincoln-Douglas Debates - Race for the US Senate seat in the state of Illinois in 1858.  South is watching this closely to find out about Stephen Douglas - rumored to run for president in 1860 - and they find out about Abe, who says that "slavery is a moral, social, and political wrong."  South is upset and will never vote for Lincoln for President in 1860.

 

Step 10: Harper's Ferry - John Brown, one of the violent abolitionists in Kansas, decides to lead a slave revolt by capturing the arsenal (weapons are stored here) in Harper's Ferry, Virginia.  Free Blacks try to recruit Virginia slaves to join rebellion, but slaves think that this is a trick.  John Brown found guilty and executed.  The South is upset and alarmed that many Northerners wanted John Brown to be found innocent.

 

Step 11:  Democratic Party Splits - The slavery issue divides the party into Northern Democrats and Southern Democrats.  This division and the splitting of the Democratic vote will help Lincoln win.  Both Northern and Southern Democrats upset.

 

Step 12:  Lincoln wins the 1860 Election - The South, already hearing about Lincoln from the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, don't even put his name on the ballot in 10 southern states.  Lincoln wins anyway. The South is so upset that they begin to secede from the US - beginning with South Carolina in Dec. of 1860.