What were the features of the Compromise of 1850?

The Compromise contained provisions to appease both the Northeners and the Southerners.

1. To please the North, the compromise provided that California be admitted to the Union as a free state.

2.  To Please the South, the compromise proposed a new and more effective fugitive slave law.

3.  To placate both sides a provision allowed popular sovereignty, the right to vote for or against slavery, for the residents of the New Mexico and Utah territories.  

What was Uncle tom's Cabin and what effect did it have on the nation?

Uncle Tom's Cabin was a book written in 1852 by Harriet Beecher Stowe. 

through the book  horrors of slavery was brought into the homes of many Americans. The book stirred Northern abolitionist to increase their protest against the Fugitive Slave Act, while southerners criticized the book as an attack on the south as a whole.

What was the outcome of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Why was it controversial?

The act divided the area into two territories: Nebraska in the north and Kansas in the south. It established popular sovereignty for both territories.

It was controversial because border ruffians from the slave state of Missouri crossed into Kansas, voted illegally and won a fraudulent majority for the proslavery candidates.  

Lincoln's victory.

Southerners viewed him as an enemy and felt that they had lost their political voice  in the national government. 

South Carolina. 

Followed by Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas. 

What happened at Fort Sumter?

What was the reaction of the upper south? Explain. 

The  Confederate forces surrounded the Harbor, and opened fire. Lincoln would neither abandon nor reinforce it. He just sent in food. After two days the North surrendered the fort. 

The upper southern states, Virginia, Arkansas North Carolina, and Tennessee seceded, bringing the number of Confederate states to eleven. Most confederate soldiers fought to protect the south from Northern aggression.

The border states were Maryland, Delaware. Missouri, Kentucky and West Virginia.

The advantages they offered were man power and resources such as factories for making weapons. And strategic access to the Ohio River.

What were the advantages and disadvantages of the North and South prior to the Civil War? 

This was a three part plan.

1. The navy would blockade Southern ports so that nothing could be imported or exported.

2. Unio riverboast and armies would move down the Mississippi River and split the Confederacy in two.

3. Union armies would capture the Confederate capital of Richmond Virginia.

Whydid the Confederacy believe that Britain would assist them in the war? 

Why did Britain remain neutral?

The confederacy believed that the Britain were dependant on cotton so would be forced to recognize the confederacy as an indepentant nation. 

The British stayed neutral because they had just got a large amount of cotton from the south and were now in need of northern Wheat and Corn

It was an executive order issued by Lincoln to free the slaves in all regions.

This weakened the south's labor force economically. 

The Confiscation Act of 1861 was an act of Congress during the early months of the American Civil War permitting the confiscation of any property, including slaves, being used to support the Confederate independence effort.

The slaves became the property of the U.S government and were eventually free.

It was a draft that forced men to serve in the army.

Many men were angry, it led to riots.