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- Confederate tactic to scream at the enemy while running at them.
- Established government, Higher population, Navy, more natural resources (more resources in general as well), blockade of the South, more railroads, and President Lincoln
- Morrill Tariff Act, Homestead Act, Legal Tender Act, Morrill Land Grant Act, Emancipation Proclomation, Pacific Railway Act, and the National Banking Act
- Pro-Slavery and Anti-Slavery Americans going into Kansas and shooting each other in hopes to outvote the other in wether it will be free or slave state.
- Unemployment, bank/business failure and proved cotton was king. It showed the sectionalism between North and South and drove another wedge in between the North and South
- He was not the leader we needed, train derailed killing his kids causing him to be distraught and the First Lady not leaving for 2 years (not the strong government we need won't be allowed to run again in next election)
- Fighting for a cause, much better generals, and fighting defensive war (home turf advantage)
- Anti Slavery Senator Charles Sumner. It criticized the South and slavery. The canning of Senator Charles Sumner(North) by Congressman Preston Brooks(South)
- Stephan A. Douglas (Northern Democrat), John C. Breckinridge (Southern Democrat), Abraham Lincoln (Republican), and John Bell (Constitutional Union-party wanted nothing to do w/ slavery). Abraham Lincoln wins. Vote can go to the House, there could be a tie.
- John Brown and his followers raid on the federal arsenal. Give weapons to slaves to start a slave revolt. He and some his followers will be executed on terms of treason.
- Abolitionist from New York. He goes down to Kansas with his sons and kills pro-slavery settles (5 to be exact). Some thought he was martyr and others thought he was a madman.
- Compromised the Missouri Compromise because Kansas and Nebraska are above the line so they couldn't be slave states but the Act says they could be
- California gold led to inflation, War in Europe is over so there is less demand for Northern grain (Europe doesn't need it anymore), Corruption of Railway lands, and the Boom and Bust cycle. North was affected greatly while the South wasn't really affected.
- allows the people in the territory gained from Mexico to decide wether or not they wanted to join the Union (United States) and then allow them to choose if they want to become a free state or a slave state
- Northerners were helping runaway slaves escape causing Southerners to be mad.
- pro slavery extremists every time something didn't go their way they threatened secession.
- she was an abolitionist and author of the famous antislavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. Gets a lot of people on board with abolition and provide a wedge between North and South.
- Barnburners and Anti slave members of Liberty and Whig Parties. The expansion of slavery in new territories.
- Nicholas Trist, established a border of the Rio Grande River America gets a considerable amount of territory (1/3 of Mexico) and give Mexico 15mil for the territory.
- When Nebraska and Kansas are ready for statehood they people could decide if they wanted to be a slave state or a free state. Stephen Douglas