Describe major events, compromises, and incedents leading up to the Civil War.
Dred Scott case, a black man was a slave in a free state so he went to court to try to figure things out, blacks weren't US citizens, and they allowed slavery everywhere. Missouri Compromise, illegal to have slavery above the 3630 latitude. Compromise of 1850, wanted Cali to be a free state. Utah and NM wanted popular sovreignty, letting the people decide. Uncle Tom's cabin was an anti-slavery book that helped open people's eyes about how bad slavery was. Kansas-Nebraska Act set up popular sovreignty. Fugitive Slave Law, if Northerners saw escaping slaves, it was their duty to contact authorities to get that slave back down South. Lincoln's election. The South thought he was going to abolish slavery, so states started seceding and forming the confederacy.
Describe the advantages of the North and South during the Civil War.
Advantages of the North - Lincoln had a good leader, the North had more people, more railroads, better industry, a good navy. Advantages of the South - bigger area, long coastline, good military leaders, seven of eight military schools.
Positive and negative effects reconstruction had on the US.
Reconstruction is the time when the US was rebuilding the damages to the South from the Civil War. Positives - the Freedman's Beaurou helped former slaves figure things out. Three amendments, the 13th abolished slavery everywhere, the 14th, the gov't has to treat everyone equally, the 15th, minority males were given the right to vote. Negatives - the KKK wanted to restore white power. Northerners took over the Southern gov't.
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