Transcript Causes of the Civil War

Causes of the Civil War
North
• Industrialization
• Improved Transportation
• Locomotives and Railway Network
• Faster Communication
• Agriculture
People in the North
• Factories
• Working Condition and organization
• African American Workers
• Women workers
• Immigration
• Prejudice against immigrants
The South
• Cotton Kingdom
• Upper South
• Deep South
• Industry in the South
• Barriers to industry
• Factories
• Southern Transportation
People of the South
• Small Farmers and Rural poor
• Plantations
• Owners
• Wives
• Work
Life Under Slavery
• Life in cabins
• Family Life
• AA Culture
• Slave Codes
• Resistance to Slavery
• Escaping Slavery
• City life and education
The Abolitionists
• Early efforts to end slavery.
• The American Colonization Society
• Bought and relocated slaves to Liberia Africa.
• William Lloyd Garrison
• One of the first to call for immediate emancipation.
• African American Abolitionists
• Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm, freedoms journal 1827
• Frederick Douglass, 421
The Underground Railroad
• 422
Clashes over Abolitionism
• Led to an intense reaction against the antislavery movement.
• Threatened Southerners way of life.
• Opposition in the North. 424
• Opposition in the South.424
Womens movement
• Calls for reform.
• Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
• The Seneca Falls Convention 1848.
• Suffrage
• Susan B. Anthony
• Coeducation
Slavery and the West.
• The Missouri Compromise
• Conflicting views with western lands.
• Wilmot Proviso
• Slavery should be prohibited in any western state.
• John C. Calhoun
• Neither congress or any territorial law can outlaw slavery.
• Clay’s Proposal
• California free state, New Mexico no restriction, New Mexico border with
Texas. Slave Trade outlawed in D. C. Stronger Fugitive law.
• The compromise of 1850
• Contained the five main points of Clay’s proposal.
A Nation Dividing
• The Fugitive Slave Act.
• Required all citizens to help catch fugitive slaves.
• The Nebraska-Kansas Act.
• Popular Sovereignty
• Bleeding Kansas
• John Brown-God Chose him to end slavery
Challenges to Slavery
• Republicans arise.
• Anti-Slavery
• “Rally for the establishment of liberty and overthrow slave power”.
• The election of 1856
• Republican John C. Fremont 174
• Democrat James Buchanan 114
• American Millard Fillmore 8
The Dred Scott Decision
• 446-997
Lincoln and Douglas
• Congressional Election of 1858, the senate race was the center of
national attention.
• Stephan A. Douglas
• Believed popular sovereignty could solve the slave problem.
• Abraham Lincoln
• Saw slavery as morally wrong but admittedly did not have an easy way of
eliminating the problem.
• Debates
• Douglas states that people could exclude slavery by refusing to pass laws that
give the slaveholders rights.
Raid on Harpers Ferry
The Election of 1860
• Would the Union break up?
• The issue of slavery broke up the Democratic party. They nominated
Stephen Douglas and upheld popular sovereignty.
• Southern Democrats nominated John C. Breckenridge and supported
the Dred Scott decision.
• Republicans nominated Abraham Lincoln stating that slavery can
remain undisturbed but should be prohibited in the territories.
Lincoln Elected
• With Democrats divided Lincoln won a clear victory with 180 out of
the 303 electoral votes.
• The voting was along purely sectional lines. Lincoln’s name did not
even appear on most southern ballots.
• Lincolns victory was short lived, the nation he was to serve would
soon disintegrate.
The South Secedes
• Many people distrust the Republican Party.
• December 20, 1860 South Carolina secedes.
• John Crittenden’s proposal.
• Series of amendments to the constitution.
• Protect slavery south of the Mason Dixon Line including territories.
• Leaders of the South refuse compromise.
• “We spit upon every plan to compromise” “No human power can save the
Union”
The Confederacy
• February 1861, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and
Georgia had joined South Carolina and seceded. They named their
selves the Confederate States of America.
• Jefferson Davis was chosen to be the president of this new
confederacy.
• Many celebrated the secession.