Transcript Basic Facts of the Civil War - Greenbush Middle River School

US History
 Ongoing
debate since prior to the founding of
the United States.
 Debated, but not addressed, in the
Declaration of Independence.
North
South
Small Farms
Many Large Cities
Factories & Business
Large Plantations
Few Large Cities
Agriculture
Labor reliant on new
immigrants
Labor reliant on slavery
 As
the United States Expanded, BALANCE of
Slave and Free States became a concern.
 The South wanted new states to be SLAVE
STATES, the North wanted new states to be
FREE STATES.
 Why did they want to keep a balance of FREE
and SLAVE states?
 More
people were beginning to become
VOCAL about their opposition to slavery.
 John Brown, although viewed in different
ways, kick started the Abolitionist
movement.
 Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe,
Frederick Douglass, and other social leaders
were beginning to grow frustrated with the
South’s “peculiar institution” of slavery.
 Robert
E. Lee was the leader of the
Confederate Army. He was highly revered by
the South and highly respected by the North.
 Ulysses S. Grant was the eventual leader of
the Union Army, but only after a string of
unsuccessful generals.
 Eli
Whitney’s Cotton Gin made
slavery even more important
for the South. Made cotton a
lucrative crop, but slave labor
was needed to harvest.
 The Railroad & the Telegraph
made transportation and
communication key – especially
for the Northern victory.
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Elected in 1860.
Self-taught lawyer
Strong opinions, high ideals
Preservation of the Union his
main goal.
Freeing the Slaves was his ideal.
A master politician – he knew
how to work with opposing
opinions, how to compromise,
and how to placate people
He assembled a “Team of Rivals”
– he gathered people who were
his political enemies to start
preserving the Union.
 Slavery
 North
& South Cultural and Economic
Differences
 The balance of Free and Slave States in
Westward Expansion
 The Growing American Conscience,
Abolitionists.
 The Military Leaders: Grant & Lee
 The role of Innovation and Invention in US
History
 Abraham Lincoln’s historic presidency