Transcript War is Coming

Have you ever had to draw a boundary line to
keep someone out of your stuff or to keep
someone away?
Why did this happen?
What was the opposing side’s reaction?
Causes of the Civil War
Economic Disagreements
• Sectional tensions
were caused by
competing
economic interests
• Industrial North
favored tariffs to
protect northern
goods from foreign
competition.
• Agricultural South
opposed tariffs that
made the price of
imports more
expensive.
• Sectional tensions were caused by westward
expansion.
• As new states entered the Union, compromises
were reached that maintained the balance of power
in Congress between “free” and “slave” states.
• Remember your chart comparing the
compromises?
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise (1820) drew an
east-west line through the Louisiana
Purchase, with slavery prohibited above the
line and allowed below, except that slavery
was allowed in Missouri, north of the line.
Compromise of 1850
• • In the Compromise of
1850, California entered as a
free state, while the new
Southwestern territories
acquired from Mexico would
decide on their own.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
• The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 repealed the
Missouri Compromise line by giving people in
Kansas and Nebraska the choice whether to allow
slavery in their states (“popular sovereignty”).
• This law produced “Bloody Kansas” as pro- and
anti-slavery forces battled each other. It also led to
the birth of the Republican party that same year to
oppose the spread of slavery.
• Sectional tensions were caused by debates over
the nature of the Union.
• South Carolina argued that sovereign states could
nullify acts of Congress. A Union that allowed
state governments to invalidate acts of the national
legislature could be dissolved by states seceding
from the Union in defense of slavery
(Nullification Crisis).
President Jackson threatened to send federal troops
to collect the tariff revenues from SC.
• “A house divided against itself cannot
stand. I believe this government
cannot endure permanently half slave
and half free.”
• Who said this?
• What does it mean?
Slave Revolt!
Nat Turner’s Rebellion in Virginia, (led by
Nat Turner and Gabriel Prosser) led to harsh
laws in the South against fugitive slaves.
Whites in the south who favored abolition
were intimidated into silence.
Abolition Movement
Northerners, led by William Lloyd Garrison,
publisher of The Liberator, increasingly
viewed the institution of slavery as a
violation of Christian principles and argued
for its abolition.
Women’s suffrage movement
• At the same time the abolitionist movement
grew, another reform movement started, to
give equal rights to women.
Seneca Falls Declaration
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
Think about all the topics regarding the PreCivil War Era that we have discussed over the
last few classes…
LIST some important:
PEOPLE
EVENTS
LAWS
COMPROMISES
PLACES
IDEAS
Causes of the Civil War
• • Sectional debate over • • Publication of Uncle
tariffs, extension of
slavery in the
territories, and the
nature of the Union
(states’ rights)
• • Northern
abolitionists v.
southern defenders of
slavery
• • U.S. Supreme Court
decision in the Dred
Scott case
Tom’s Cabin by
Harriet Beecher Stowe
• • A history of failed
compromises over the
expansion of slavery
in the territories
• • President Lincoln’s
call for federal troops
in 1861
Civil War Info
• www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/us2
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Civil War Ideas
• WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE
CIVIL WAR?
• Add to your list…
Civil War Era Essay
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Approx. 500 words OR 3 pages
Typed, 12 pt font, Courier New Font
Double Spaced, 1” Margin Max on all sides
Minimum of three sources
Bibliography, MLA format
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• http://americancivilwar.com/