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Questions

1. Some states chose to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy. Some decide to become border states.

2. The war is going to be tough and lasting for a while.

3. North: 1. Blockade southern ports; Attack along Mississippi river and split the Confederacy, and try to attack in the east and capture the capital at Richmond

   South: Hold on! Stay strong! Defend!

1. MD is in adjacent of the Union's capital, Washington D.C.
2. Battle of Bull Run
3. Border states is in vicinity of Union's enemy.

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Lincoln Douglas Debates - 1858  - Douglas win

• Republican - If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

• Democrat - Territories should decide slavery for themselves (Popular sovereignty)

John Brown

• Strongly against slavery
• Want to lead a rebellion 
• Attacked Harper Ferry, took weapon and gave them to slaves
• Failed, hanged

Election of 1860

• Northern Democrats - Stephen Douglass
• Southern Democrats - John Breckinridge
• Republican - Abraham Lincoln  -  Won
• South - feel powerless
• Decide to secede - quit the union
• South Caroline - first state to secede, later, GE, FL, MI, LA, AL, and TE had also left
• They name their group the Confederate States of America
• Jefferson Davis is the president 

The Civil War Begins

Lincoln -  want to avoid civil war

Fort Sumter

• A U.S. Government property
• Anderson - the commander of the fort
• Running low on supplies
• Lincoln - decide to let the ship go unarmed 
• Confederates - demand Anderson to surrender
• April 12, 1861 - Confederates fired Fort - War Beginning  

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Lily took the test

Andrew Butler's nephew beats sumner hard

1. Nebraska - corn 
2. Senator Stephen Douglas - wants to organize Nebraska into a territory - slavery problem 
3. NE - free (North)
4. KA - No  (South) 

Popular sovereignty

1. People decide
2. Even in a territory 

Vote

• Pro-slavery won - cheating (vote without residence)
• 1500 suppose to vote,  6000 voted 
• Extremist
• Two government 
• May 1856 - pro slavery attacked Lawrence, Kansas, where is the capital of the anti-slavery
• Later - anti killed five pro slavery men 

Dred Scott

• Being lived in a free state for four years
• Court - rule against him
• Higher- for him
• Supreme court 
• Scott is not allow to bring a case to the supreme court since slave is not an U.S. citizen
• The law considered slaves property. The owner could move anywhere and still own his property. 
• The Missouri Compromise was against the law. Congress did not have the power to decide where slavery should be allowed. (State decide) (Lose balance) 

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Underground railroad - secret path to North - Freedom!

100,000 slaves escaped

Harriet Tubman freed 300 slaves through the U.R

Solomon Northup - Freed - captured - freed again


William Lioyd Garrison

• Newspaper, liberator
• Anti-slavery society 

Harriet Beecher Stowe 

1. Uncle Tom's cabin 

Frederick Douglass

1. Escaped slave 
2. Taught by slaveholder's wife
3. Escaped when he was 21 years old 
4. Wrote his autobiography

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Background: In 1819, there are 11 slave free states and 11 slave states-Tied


So......

In 1820 - The Great Compromise - By Henry Clay

   Maine - free state

   Missouri - slave state

   Rest of Louisiana Territory - Divided by a line

1838 Texas - slave state

Blog - questions

1. The Missouri Compromise kept the balance between slave and free states in the Senate.

2. West, North, and South

Chart Study

1. North: More tax--sell for less than foreign products. South: Less tax--For buying cheaper goods. West--More tax--use extra tax to build railroads.

2. North: Less slavery. South: More slavery

The compromise of 1850:

• California would join the union as a free state.
• In the rest of the territory from Mexico, people would decide whether or not to allow slavery.
• The slave trade would be banned in Washington, D.C. 
• Congress would pass the Fugitive law.

Section Review

1. He and other senators came up the Compromise of 1850 state.
2. The fugitive law states that the Northerner is obligated to extradite the escaped Southern slave back to the South. 
3. Yes. Some people favor a part of the country while other people favor other parts. 
4. We want more tax on the Foreign goods!!!! Do you want to earn more money? Wanna be rich? Let's have more tax on the foreign goods so we can sell our products cheaper!!!

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Today, Mr. Schick was absent. We went to the yearbook room with Mrs. Zukaoski. We thought we are going to have a test at the beginning. However, Mrs. Zukaoski told us that she didn't get one and we should either review our test or working on something else.