Transcript Civil War

Civil War
Events & Issues
Leading to the Civil
War
Explain how specific events and issues led to the Civil War, including the
sectionalism fueled by issues of slavery in the territories, states’ rights, the
election of 1860, and secession.
North and South
The way of life of one section of
the United States was threatening
the way of life in the other section
of the United States.
These differences caused
sectionalism!
What is sectionalism?
A loyalty to a section or part
of the country rather than to
the whole country
Sectionalism was fueled
by slavery in the
territories!
Remember and Review…
The Struggle over Slavery
•Missouri Compromise
•The Compromise of 1850
•“Bleeding Kansas”
Sectionalism was fueled
by states’ rights!
What are states’ rights? The idea that states have
the right to make decisions about issues that concern
them
Southerners believed in states’ rights
and thought slavery should be legal if a
state’s people wanted it to be.
Sectionalism was fueled
by states’ rights!
“If each state will only agree to mind
its own business…this republic can
exist forever divided into free and slave
states.”
-Stephen Douglas, running against Lincoln for
Senate [before running for President]
Sectionalism was fueled
by the election of 1860!
Democratic Party split…Northern Democrats chose Stephens
Douglas and Southern Democrats chose John Breckinridge.
The Republicans chose Abraham Lincoln.
•Lincoln won the election even though he had no Southern
electoral votes!\
•Southerners feared that Lincoln would attempt to end slavery
in the western territories and the southern states.
•Southerners also worried they would have no voice in the
government.
•Lincoln said to the South, “We must not be enemies.”
Sectionalism was fueled
by secession!
What does it mean to secede? To break
away from
In December of 1860, almost two months after
Lincoln was elected President, South Carolina
decided to secede from the Union. Six other
states followed. These states formed their own
government called the Confederate States of
America.
Sectionalism was fueled
by secession!
The Confederate States of America were
referred to as the Confederacy.
The Confederacy elected Jefferson Davis as its
President.