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AMERICAN CIVIL WAR (ANTI SLAVERY (John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Terry VA…

- - - - Uncle Tom's Cabin increased the amount of sectionalism between the North and the South, which soon led to The Civil War. The book fueled the abolitionist cause in the North and caused conflict in the South. The South felt as if the North were spreading lies about slavery and that people were believing it. This caused fights in the Southern states, saying that Harriet Beecher Stowe never even been there.
        
        "So you're the little women who wrote the book that made this great war." Lincoln's statement was true, the book had a large role in starting The Civil War.
    - - Lincoln, from Illinois, ran in the Republican Party, whose platform stated that slavery would not spread any farther than it already had.
      - Convinced that their way of life, based on slavery, was irretrievably threatened by the election of President Abraham Lincoln (November 1860), the seven states of the Deep South (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas) seceded from the Union during the following months.
  - - - A series of seven debates. The two argued the important issues of the day like popular sovereignty, the Lecompton Constitution and the Dred Scott decision.
        
        Freeport doctrine
        
        Freeport doctrine was Douglass’s answer. The obvious: Whatever the supreme court says about slavery, it could not exist anywhere unless supported by police regulations.
        
        Crittenden compromise
        
        This plan was a proposal to re-establish the Missouri Compromise line and extend it westward to the Pacific coast. Slavery would be prohibited north or the line and permitted south of the line
        
        compromise would have required the northerners to abandon their most fundamental position-that slavery should not be allowed to expand- and so they rejected it.
        
        Barnburnes
        
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        Lincoln was focused on principle, and insisted the American government could not endure half slave and half free...it will become all of one thing.”*
        Sectional differences: Democrats in South vs Republicans in North
        Slavery could be ended or defended only with violence
- - - - Outbreak of war with Mexico: Driven by Democratic party to add more slave states to the Union.
        Work of pro slavery southerners seeking new territories
        
        Mexican war: Catalyst in deepening sectional tensions over slavery. Surged national pride in the United States.
        “Shameful war..”
        Ulysses Grant called it later “unjust war”
        American civil war, was our “punishment” for unholy Mexican war.
        
        Fulfilled manifest destiny, got land from Atlantic Ocean to Pacific.
        
        GADEN PURCHASE
        
        1853 treaty in which the United States bought from Mexico parts of what is now southern Arizona and southern New Mexico. Southerners wanted this land in order to build southern transcontinental railroad, it also showed the American belief in Manifest Destiny.
        
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        WILMOT PROVISO
        
        Slavery played crucial role in the series of event dividing the nation!! Prompting secession + civil war
        
        Mexican war was less than 3 months old when the seeds of a new political conflict began to sprout.
        
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        The first significant combat experience for a group of junior officers who would later on serve as leading generals during the Civil War. “Robert E.Lee”
        
        Mexican war importance:
        
        First successful imperial American war,
      - Consequences of Mexican War: The Mexican war cost the United States 1,733 killed in battle, 4,152, wounded, and as usual, far more-11,550-dead of disease, mostly dysentery and chronic diarrhea. The Mexican war remain the deadliest war in American history in terms of the percentage of combatants killed