History Harrison grade 10 March 14

1846

slave owner moved from slave state of missouri to free state then back to missouri. After owner died, dred scott sues saying he should have been freed when living in the free territory.

ded scott lost case in missouri courts. He appelled to supreme state. 2 questions sc- is he a citizen?? (plus another one I can't figure out from your notes)

slaves are property, just like any other property
-due process
-missouri compromise ruled unconstitutional (any law forbidding slavery in the terrritories is unconstitutional because they are property)

blacks, slave or free, are not citizens of the us
-distinction between citizenship in a state us the federal govt.
-rights granted by a state dont apply in other states
-no right to sue

total of 9 sc justices
-7 were from the south
-5 had slaves

7-2 in favor of dred scott stays slave
(after case the sons of his owner bought his freedom)

march 1864 Lincoln appoints Ulysses S. Grant commander of army

-Sherman believes the best way to end the war is to defeat other side quickly
-crush confederate morale
-deliberate destruction in an attempt to demoralize southerners
-strike at civilian population - TERRORIZE
-burn everything
-war is hell

Troops march from atlanta GA to savannah GA- did not destroy savannah as a Christmas gift to lincoln, then to North Carolina (NC)

He didn't destroy Savannah during his march to the sea

April 9, 1865

richmond falls to union. (capital)
- S Troops are running out of rations

Lee surrenders at appromattox court house.
Lee was in his best uniform, Grant was in a bad suit.

1858 Senate race to Illinois
Abraham Lincoln vs. Stephen Douglas

tall, 6'4", thin, lanky. Plain, ordinary dress. Must outlaw slavery
party: Whig congressman.

short 5'4" and stocky. formal dress, 2 term senator.
party: ppular sovereignty
Slavery will eventually phase out.

Douglas wins senate seat, lincoln won presidential election of 1860

April 14, 1865
-Ford Theater, washington DC, Play called "Our American Cousin"- comedic play
-Lincolns guard left

John Wilkes booth. He shoots lincoln Pb (?) then jumps down to stage and breaks his leg. Dies in barn fire.
Conspiracy-9 people were arrested

Lincoln-
Stephen Douglas
Breckenridge
Bell

Republican, anti-slavery moderate

Northern democrat - PS

Southern democrat- pro-slavery expansion in territories
He wins lower south

constitutional union party
no opinion
do nothings

resentful that lincoln wins. They lost their political voice, feared the end of their way of life (slavery)

South Carolina secedes.

GA, LA, AL, MS, FL, TX
(far south)

VA, AR, TN, NC

WV secedes from VA and stays with the union.

southern states that allow slavery but don't secede. MD, DE, KY, MO

it guaranteed slavery, states are sovereign and independent

federal fort in Charleston, SC

Running out of food and supplies
-Lincoln needed to choose between fortifying or withdrawing

-shared revolutionary history and heros
-constitution and government
-economy-interdepended cotton market
-Christianity
-Both sides expected a short war

Both sides expected a short war

N - 22 million
S - 9 million

N- Industrialized
S-cotton

N- better system
S- less developed

N- high level of literacy
S-less developed

N- focused on social improvement
S - focused on personal improvement

N - lincoln is a great leader
S-Home field advantage

food and supply shortage (cloth, shoes, clothing)
--Money loses value

-running plantations
-factory work
-govt work
-spies
--fight in war as men
--nursing-must be over 30

-Northernmost point in the civil war
3 day battle, July 1-3, 1863

Yes

-confederate soldiers searching for shoes June 30 (which means that they were not stocked with adequate supplies)
--Robert E. Lee comes with 25,000 men

Lee's troops were supposed to attack at 10 am, instead they attacked at 4 am

no

A mile wide charge (we saw this Harrison it was the charge from the hill)

confederate - 28,000
union -- 23,000

(remember lee arrived with 25,000 - I guess more guys arrived later)

The Democrats-
--Tried to keep the peace between anti-slavery North and pro-slavery South
--Congress has no power under the constitution to interfere in state institutions (ie slavery)
--Congress should not interfere with slavery in any state, territory, or in the District of columbia (DC)

-Republican
--Liberty
-Free-Soil
-Know-Nothing

-United in keeping slavery out of territories
-as party grew it took in free-soilers, antislavery whigs and democrats, and nativists, mostly from the north
-slavery is the relic of barbarism and no man should be deprived of life and liberty

that is was a "relic of barbarism" and that no man should be deprived of life and liberty

-abolitionist party, formed for the purpose of pursuing the cause of abolition by passing new laws.
-Equal rights among ALL men
-Slavery is against natural rights
-slavery is a deep stain on the character of the country and must be first contained to its origins, then stopped altogether

-slavery is a "deep stain" on the character of the country and must be first contained to its origins, then stopped altogether

-opposed the extension of slavery into the territories
-not necessarily all abolitionists, what they manly objected to was slavery's competition with free white workers, or a wage-based labor force, upon which the North depended.
-To them the extension of slavery directly threatened the free labor system

Also known as the american Party
-Slavery not their key issue, this party expressed a belief in nativism, which is the favoring of native-born people over immigrants
-Primarily, citizen born in the United States began to feel resentment at the newly increased immigration from Europe.