Long Term Causes

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Long Term Causes of the Civil War
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Question of States Rights

• Federalism
• System of multiple governments in order to give
  more localized decision making power
• - 10th Amendment
• Rights reserved for the states
• -Idea of nullification
• If states think laws are against the
  Constitution, they do not have to follow them

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The Debate Over Slavery
Abolition and the Union cannot coexistWe of the
South will not, cannot, surrender our
institutions. John C. Calhoun

-Pro-slavery Slavery should be allowed
everywhere -Anti-slavery Slavery should not
be allowed anywhere -Opposed growth of
slavery Slavery should be limited to where it
already exists


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The History of Nullification

-Sedition Acts Virginia and Kentucky
Resolutions -Tariff laws 1828 Tariff
Crisis -Slavery Issues Southern threats to
nullify any anti-slavery law
Thomas Jefferson Threatens Nullification in the
Kentucky Resolution


John C. Calhoun Threatens Nullification of the
Tariff of Abominations

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Sectionalism

-Issues become more and more regional in
nature -Slavery, tariffs, economics All
disagreements between North and
South -Industrial north More technology and
money -Agricultural south Depend on trade with
other nations

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Compromise of 1820 (a.k.a. Missouri Compromise)
-Drew a line to determine the future areas of
slavery 36-30 line of division -Solved the
slavery debate for about 20 years


Can we as a nation Continue together permanently
forever half slave and half free? Abraham
Lincoln
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Compromise of 1850
-Wilmot Proviso tried to block slavery in old
Mexican areas but is defeated in
Congress -California applies for
statehood Debate begins and Clay organizes
compromise -California admitted as free state
(North Likes) -South gets stronger Fugitive law
(South Likes) -Popular Sovereignty to help
decide future cases of slavery People of states
choose for themselves
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Underground Railroad
- Many early attempts at escape relied on
luck - Network of anti-slavery advocates who
helped slaves escape - Many times slaves needed
to get to Canada to be totally free -Harriet
Tubman Black Moses
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The Underground Railroad


Theres two things I got a right to and these
are Death and Liberty. One or the other I mean
to have. Harriet Tubman
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Follow the Drinking Gourd
Follow the drinking gourd,Follow the drinking
gourd,For the old man is waiting for to carry
you to freedom If you follow the drinking
gourd When the sun comes back and the first
quail calls, Follow the drinking gourd,For the
old man is waiting for to carry you to freedom If
you follow the drinking gourd The riverbank will
make a very good road,The dead trees show you
the way,Right foot, peg foot traveling
on,Following the drinking gourd. The river ends
between two hills,Follow the drinking
gourd,There's another tree on the other
side,Follow the drinking gourd.
Where the great big river meets the little
river,Follow the drinking gourd, The old man is
waiting, for to carry you to freedomIf you
follow the drinking gourd
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Fugitive Slave Law

• - Allowed slave catchers to go into free areas
  and capture runaway slaves
• - Made it a crime to help any runaway
• Suspected slaves need not be given a trial or a
  chance to testify
• Law angered Northern abolitionists
• Law eased southern fears of anti-slavery reformers