civil war glossary

This was controversial caused many abolitionists to increase their efforts against slavery.

Guide Missouri Compromise (1820) The institution of slavery had been a divisive issue in the United States for decades before this territory petitioned Congress for admission to the Union as a state in 1818.

In an attempt to address the issue of the further spread of slavery, it stipulated that all the Louisiana Purchase territory north of the southern boundary of Missouri, except Missouri, would be free, and the territory below that line would be slave. -http://civilwar.bluegrass.net/secessioncrisis/200303.html tariff A tax on imported goods to protect domestic manufacturers.

Tariff of Abominations a tax on hemp, wool, fur, flax, liquor, and imported textiles, a package catered to the benefit of states in the Mid-Atlantic, Ohio Valley, and New England.

This ability of a state to decide whether it would allow slavery was called popular sovereignty.

Wilmot Proviso (1846) would have banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War or in the future, including the area later known as the Mexican Cession.

The other said that popular sovereignty would nationalize and perpetuate slavery.

A secession crisis was averted when Congress revised the Tariff of Abominations in February 1833.

It never passed, never became law. the Compromise of 1850 With the end of the Mexican War, America was ceded western territories.

South Carolina Nullification Crisi (1832–1833) As industry in the North expanded it looked towards southern markets, rich with cash from the lucrative agricultural business, to buy the North's manufactured goods.

Enrollment Act (1863) This was the first example of conscription or compulsory military service in United States history.

John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry (1859) a radical abolitionist led a group of seventeen including five black members to raid the arsenal located in Virginia (now West Virginia).

This was controversial caused many abolitionists to increase their efforts against slavery.

When a Southern state passed this Ordinance, refusing to collect the tariff and threatening to withdraw from the Union, Jackson ordered federal troops to Charleston.

A secession crisis was averted when Congress revised the Tariff of Abominations in February 1833.

In an attempt to address the issue of the further spread of slavery, it stipulated that all the Louisiana Purchase territory north of the southern boundary of Missouri, except Missouri, would be free, and the territory below that line would be slave. -http://civilwar.bluegrass.net/secessioncrisis/200303.html tariff A tax on imported goods to protect domestic manufacturers.

This posed a problem: as these new territories would be admitted as states, would they be free or slave?

Wilmot Proviso (1846) would have banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War or in the future, including the area later known as the Mexican Cession.

Fugitive Slave Act - 1850 This act was passed as part of the Compromise of 1850.

Wilmot Proviso (1846) would have banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War or in the future, including the area later known as the Mexican Cession.

Lincoln-Douglas debates (1858) a series of 7 encounters between Illinois candidates for Senate.

Both states were admitted, a free Maine and a slave Missouri, and the balance of power in Congress was maintained as before, postponing the inevitable showdown for another generation.

Wilmot Proviso (1846) would have banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War or in the future, including the area later known as the Mexican Cession.

However, it was often cheaper for the South to purchase the goods abroad.

Guide Missouri Compromise (1820) The institution of slavery had been a divisive issue in the United States for decades before this territory petitioned Congress for admission to the Union as a state in 1818.