Causes of the Civil War Outline – Advanced Placement
Early dealing with the slavery issue
Planter aristocracy
Those without slaves
Free Blacks
Slave conditions
Slave revolts
Stono Rebellion
Gabriel Prosser
Denmark Vesey
Nat Turner
Abolitionist movement
2nd Great Awakening
Richard Allen
Frederick Douglas
William Lloyd Garrison
Theodore Dwight Weld
Harriet Tubman
David Walker
American Colonization Society
Southern response
Gag Rule
Nullification Crisis
Missouri Compromise 1820
Tallmadge Amendment
Manifest Destiny
John L. O’Sullivan
William Henry Harrison/ John Tyler
Maine boundary dispute
Webster-Ashburton Treaty 1842
Mesabi – iron ore – Minnesota
Texas history
Election of 1844
James K. Polk
Henry Clay
Oregon Country
California
John Slidell
Zackary Taylor
“Spot Resolutions”
Mexican War
Santa Anna
Buena Vista – Taylor
Pacific fleet – John Fremont
Mexico City – Winfield Scott
“Civil Disobedience”
Henry David Thoreau
“All Mexico”
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Mexican Cession
Texas boundary
Wilmot Proviso
Election of 1848
Zackary Taylor – Whig
Lewis Cass – Democrat
Free Soil Party
Sectionalism
Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
California gold
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Law
Slave vs. Free states
Uncle Tom’s Cabin - 1852
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Election of 1852
Franklin Pierce – Democrat
Winfield Scott – Whig
Clayton-Bulwar Treaty 1850
Japan - 1853
Nicaragua – William Walker 1856
Cuba
Ostend Manifesto
Transcontinental Railroad
Gadsden Purchase 1853
Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854
Stephen Douglas
Popular sovereignty
Kansas
Shawnee Mission
Topeka
Bleeding Kansas
Pottawatomie Creek
John Brown
LeCompton Constitution
Charles Sumner “Crime Against Kansas” 1856
Andrew Butler – S.C.
Preston Brooks
Election of 1856
James Buchanan – Democrats
John C. Fremont – Republican
Millard Fillmore – Know Nothing Party
Dred Scott Case – 1857
Financial Crash of 1857
Illinois Senate – Election 1858
Republican – Abraham Lincoln
Democrat – Stephen Douglas
Lincoln – Douglas Debate
Freeport Question
Raid on Harper’s Ferry – 1859
Election of 1860
Republican – Abraham Lincoln
Democratic Party Split
Democrat – Stephen Douglas
Democrat – John C. Breckenridge
Constitutional Union Party – John Bell
South Carolina
Lame duck Buchanan
Crittenden Compromise 1860
Reasons for secession
Why compromise could no longer work