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Denmark Vesey Plot
~Denmark Vesey was a slave that won the lottery and paid for his freedom
~Preached at a church in Charleston
~Plotted to burn the city and kill the governor along with every white man they saw
~Several nervous slaves leaked to their owners
~Vesey was arrested and put to trail June 22nd
~Soon hanged along with other slaves dealing with the plot
~http://www.pbs.org/thisfarbyfaith/people/denmark_vesey.html
Sectionalism
~Started when the North and South governments had problems
~North wanted to get rid of slavery
~South wanted to keep slavery
~Divided the country into two parts
~Big part in the Civil War
~https://prezi.com/svt1cphxh0nf/how-sectionalism-lead-to-the-civil-war/
The Abolitionist Movement
~Created to end slavery
~Movement grew stronger
~Slave owners responded
~Created the Civil War
~http://www.historynet.com/abolitionist-movement
Slave Codes
~laws to control the behavior of slaves
~Giving full power to the owners of slaves
~Laws prohibited reading, writing, owning a weapon, leaving the plantation without permission, and lifting a hand against a white man, even for self-defense.
~https://www.boundless.com/u-s-history/textbooks/boundless-u-s-history-textbook/slavery-in-the-antebellum-u-s-1820-1840-16/slavery-in-the-u-s-122/slave-codes-653-10159/
Most men fought in the war on both sides, of course. In the Union, most soldiers were volunteers, leading up to 2.4million. The Confederate on the other hand, only had up to 1 million soldiers. The army mostly had Native Americans, African Americans, and Chinese Americans; along with white men. Only a fourth of the Union were from out of America.
http://www.historynet.com/civil-war-soldiers
Women during the Civil War would often disguise themselves as men just they could fight in the war. In the Union, they were nurses and cooks for both sides. The Confederate had less money, so the they would sew and cook for their boys and would heal their wounds; but rich women relied on their slaves to do all the work.
http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/women-in-the-civil-war
The average age for the union was 25 years old. The average age for the confederate was unknown, but at the end of the war they were all old men and women. http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/faq/
Some blacks joined the war on the confederate and even the union. They were also cooks, nurses, blacksmiths on both sides, the confederate refused to arm them but used them around the camps. But most slaves stayed slaves until the end of the war.
http://www.historynet.com/african-americans-in-the-civil-war
At 4:30 in the morning on April 12 in 1861, the Civil War would begin in Charleston's Harbor confederate forces would fire upon Fort Sumter.
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Agriculture was the main focus of South Carolina since colonial times.Large plantations were common across South Carolina. South Carolina is going to have more slave owners per 1000 people than any other state.However, the economic, social and political systems in South Carolina were based on the institution of slavery.In 1793 Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin and South Carolina farmers had a new cash crop. As a result they planted more cotton to increase profits and became even more dependent on slave labor.Although slave importation (international slave trade ) was outlawed in 1808, the slave population continued to grow in antebellum South Carolina. Link Title
The Northern states tried to prevent Southerners from getting the goods they needed during the war. The Southern decided to prepare and wait for the North to attachttps://infogr.am/strategies_of_the_north_and_south_in_the_civil_war
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiK95qY2cTTAhUG6YMKHbhqAXcQFggtMAI&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.historyplace.com%2Flincoln%2Fkansas.htm&usg=AFQjCNHZQXEnJppkXJWaV_GkWnNARdPGhg&sig2=VzSkIxJh00mv0l2RfoLIwQ
Politicians were forced to deal with the issue of slavery and its westward expansion as early as the Missouri Compromise of 1820. The States had previously maintained a shaky balance in the Senate with an equal number of representatives from both Slave and Free States. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj8h6vOlMfTAhVG34MKHbt3Au0QFggtMAI&url=http%3A%2F%2Fushistoryscene.com%2Farticle%2Fcivil-war-west-expansion%2F&usg=AFQjCNHk2c6gsu1nikBMGst4hUgccFg1Qw&sig2=y9_BT5x_wQveen4JOtY1vA
United States presidential election of 1860, American presidential election held on Nov. 6, 1860, in which Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwi55pCs2cTTAhVH6IMKHbKkBNoQFgguMAI&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.britannica.com%2Fevent%2FUnited-States-presidential-election-of-1860&usg=AFQjCNHgvKkTYXzUkYvI51iOgmf675xAjQ&sig2=kgi4M9LGJNeuwV48SuX9NQ
The extension of slavery. For a time Congress was deadlocked, but Henry Clay arranged the so-called Missouri Compromise: Missouri was admitted as a slave state at the same time Maine came in as a free state. In addition, Congress banned slavery from the territory acquired by the Louisiana Purchase north of Missouri's southern boundary.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjo1IDmiMfTAhUowYMKHTQdDJIQFggpMAI&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.let.rug.nl%2Fusa%2Foutlines%2Fhistory-1994%2Fwestward-expansion-and-regional-differences%2Fextension-of-slavery.php&usg=AFQjCNGFynoxPcejpj4zr26wMs2SGANQcw&sig2=GKYl1SVSe7sPt8dN-Iqh2w
John C. Calhoun who is most widely remembered as a defender of the institution of slavery, became outraged in the late 1820s by the imposition of tariffs which he felt unfairly penalized the South.He was one of the most experienced and powerful politicians in the country. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0ahUKEwjI7f72isfTAhUs6YMKHZjJDbYQFggnMAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thoughtco.com%2Fnullification-crisis-definition-1773387&usg=AFQjCNG27AOpMlnNk6Va2mN7o4bjTlm11w&sig2=XMiPcoervv5O5LMZmrwoEg
The Nullification Crisis arose in the early 1830s when leaders of South Carolina advanced the idea that a state did not have to follow a federal law and could, in effect, "nullify" the law. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0ahUKEwjI7f72isfTAhUs6YMKHZjJDbYQFggnMAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thoughtco.com%2Fnullification-crisis-definition-1773387&usg=AFQjCNG27AOpMlnNk6Va2mN7o4bjTlm11w&sig2=XMiPcoervv5O5LMZmrwoEg
legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, ruled (7–2) that a slave (Dred Scott) who had resided in a free state and territory (where slavery was prohibited) was not thereby entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjmnOCV2sTTAhWg14MKHWTIB1IQFggkMAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.britannica.com%2Fevent%2FDred-Scott-decision&usg=AFQjCNFstQGPXLloz9tqtjJq1_eNLM8-FQ&sig2=gUQERAK-yE5f1I_Z4jHOqQ
Key issues that led to South Carolina's secession from the
union. Relied on slave labor to fuel the agricultural economy.Slavery was an important part of the southern way of life an critical to southerners economy.Southerners did not want slavery to be abolished.