Transcript the civil war

THE AMERICAN
CIVIL WAR
“Slavery is a fire bell in the night that
will toll the death of the Union”
Thomas Jefferson
Differences
Divide
The North and
The South
Regional Differences
North
• More factories
• People began moving to the cities to
work
• Less people were farming
• People from other countries moved to
the North
• Population grew rapidly to over 19
million PEOPLE!!!
THE SOUTH
• Farming remained the main way to earn a
living
– Most were small one family farms
• Cut lumber, raised cattle, and raised
just enough food for their own families
• Population was a lot smaller (11
million) than in the North (19 million)
“King Cotton”
•Cotton was hard to prepare for market
•The little seeds had to be separated
from the cotton.
•This was very hard to do and took a
LOT of TIME
•Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin
•Made cleaning cotton easier
•Farmers grew more cotton and made
more money
•Needed more slaves to work the
cotton
North and South Disagree
–States’ Rights
• South didn’t like depending on
the North’s manufactured
goods
• Thought the North was getting
RICH off of them
THE ROAD TO SECESSION!
MISSOURI COMPROMISE
• Compromise-a settlement in which both
sides make concessions
Free state: didn’t want slavery.
Slave state: wanted slavery
Everything was EVEN until
Missouri wanted to become a
state
11 FREE STATES/11 SLAVE
STATES
• Missouri to join the U.S. as a slave
state
• This would make more slave states
than free. It would be 12 to 11
• Missouri would join as a slave state
AND Maine would join as a free state.
• Imaginary line would be drawn
through the rest of the Louisiana
territory
• All territory south of the line would be
slave and all above would be free
Results of the Missouri
Compromise of 1820
Kept the peace for nearly 30
years
Six new states joined the Union –
3 slave and 3 free….still equal in
number
AND THEN along
came…California
Results of The Compromise of 1850
• California = Free
• New Mexico and Utah territories= people
would decide if they wanted slavery or not
• When the people get to decide it is called
Popular Sovereignty
• The South would get a stronger Fugitive
Slave Law
• Slave Auctions would be forbidden in
Washington, D.C.
• Geographically speaking: Why would the
people of Utah and New Mexico decide for
or against slavery?
Fugitive Slave Law
•A new law that said:
Anyone caught helping slaves
escape would be punished.
If you found a runaway slave, you
had to return them to their owner.
If they did not enforce the old law
what would make them enforce the
new one?
Was this really a benefit in the
compromise?
HOPES FOR PEACE FADE
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Gave people living there the choice by
voting
• Hundreds moved in to “vote” on whether to
be a free or slave state.
• Tempers FLARED and over 200 people
were killed in the dispute
• Nicknamed “ Bleeding Kansas”
“Bleeding Kansas”
Border “Ruffians”
(pro-slavery
Missourians)
John Brown: Madman, Hero or
Martyr?
Dred Scott v. Sanford, 1857
Does
property
have
rights?
John Brown’s Raid
on Harper’s Ferry, 1859
1860
Election
Results
Fort Sumter: April 12, 1861