Tim and moby rule 341/2/2024 ![]() The southern states seceded shortly after his election in 1860. And President Lincoln was a strong opponent of both. The states' rights and slavery issues both increased the differences between the North and the South. TIM: Yeah, right? This angered abolitionists: those were people who were actively against slavery. citizens, and that slave owners from the South could keep their slaves if they moved to free states. TIM: The court said that even when he traveled to free states, Scott still belonged to his owner! It also said that African Americans could never be U.S. TIM: Dred Scott was a slave whose owner traveled throughout free states and territories. TIM: It repealed the Compromise of 1820 and said that any new state could be a slave state if it wanted to! The Supreme Court supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act with their infamous Dred Scott decision.Īn image shows the Supreme Court building. The line separating free and slave states is removed from the map. But in 1854, southern politicians managed to pass the Kansas-Nebraska Act. TIM: It basically divided the Louisiana Purchase evenly between slavery and freedom, and it set a balancing rule, so that for every free state that joined the Union, a slave state would also join. The map shows a line separating free and slave states evenly within the Louisiana Purchase. In 1820, Northern and Southern states agreed to the Missouri Compromise. TIM: They didn't want any new states to be pro-slavery. ![]() TIM: Free states were especially worried about the Louisiana Purchase lands, bought from France in 1803. TIM: From then until the Civil War, slavery divided the North and the South.Īn image shows Union representatives splitting from Confederate representatives in Congress. TIM: They felt that slavery went against everything the United States was all about.Īn image shows the Constitution, with the preamble highlighted: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Constitution was adopted in 1787, most of the states north of Delaware had made slavery illegal.Īn animation shows slaves picking and carrying cotton. TIM: But others think that the main issue was slavery. Many historians argue that the main reason the southern states seceded was over states' rights.Īn image shows industrial plants in the Northern United States and farmhouses in the Southern United States. Tariffs usually favored northern industry and hurt southern farmers. TIM: Oh, a tariff is basically a tax, usually on trade. South Carolina wanted the right to nullify, or cancel, a federal tariff that was hurting its economy.Īn image shows South Carolina on a map of the United States. TIM: In 1832, South Carolina almost seceded over this argument in the Nullification Crisis. The North and South disagreed about how powerful those federal laws should be. TIM: The 10th Amendment of the Constitution does give each state the right to make its own laws, as long as they don't go against federal law. That's the idea that each state gets to make its own laws.Īn image shows a partial map of the United States with the states renamed to things like "Steve", "Gamblestan", North Buddhista", "TaxFreeLand", "Democratia", "Christiana" and "Republicana". But that's just what the Confederate states did. TIM: Any time a state didn't like the rules, they could just leave. ![]() TIM: President Abraham Lincoln knew that if he let states secede from the country whenever they wanted, it would set a bad example for the future. The Civil War began.Īn animation shows a cannon firing on Fort Sumter. TIM: In April of 1861, Confederate troops fired on Union soldiers at Fort Sumter in South Carolina. were called the Union.Ī map shows the Confederate and Union states. ![]() The twenty-four states that stayed with the U.S. That means they left the United States to make their own country! They called themselves the Confederate States of America, or the Confederacy. First, let's get the basics out of the way. But historians still argue about what exactly caused the Civil War. TIM: Dear Tim and Moby, my older brother says the Civil War was all about states' rights. Moby points to a line separating where he and Tim sit. Tim is sleeping and snoring in the back seat of a car next to Moby. Text reads: The Mysteries of Life with Tim and MobyĪn image shows half of an American flag and half of a Confederate flag. ![]()
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