WHAT CAUSED THE CIVIL WAR?

WHAT CAUSED THE CIVIL WAR?

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SLAVERY

O SLAVERYSectionalism - loyalty to your part of the country

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The Cotton Gin – A device used to separate cotton from its seeds

2 A SHOE The Cotton Gin – Much faster than doing it by hand. Makes cotton more profitable.

More cotton makes

plantation owners more

money

more moneyencourages Plantation

owners to buy more land

When they buy more land the

plantation ownersneed more slaves to work the land

more slaves working more land produces more cotton

American Expansion1800 - 1853

DO NOW: Answer the following question:Why do you think Westward expansion would complicate the issue of slavery?

3 A TREE

3 A TREEWestward Expansion America expands westward and adds new states. Problem: Will the new states be “Slave States” or “Free States” ?(No Slavery)

3 A TREE FREEWestward Expansion If more states are admitted as “Free” then the anti-slavery North will have a majority in Congress . and control the future of America N

3 A TREESLAVEWestward Expansion But, If more states are admitted as “Slave” States then the pro-slavery South will have a majority in Congress .

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3 A TREEThe side with the most states has the most representation in Congress and can control the future of slavery in America

4 A DOOR

My Door !

4 A DOOR

My Door !

4 A DOOR Compromise Fails – Attempts to decide how to deal with slavery fail to solve the issue.

the Missouri Compromise of 1820, allowed the free and slave states to remain balanced with the admissions of Missouri and Maine as slave and free states. My

Door !

4 A DOOR Compromise Fails – Attempts to decide how to deal with slavery fail to solve the issue.

the Missouri Compromise of 1820, PROBLEM: failure to continue the admission of states in pairs of free and slave led to an imbalance

My Door !

4 A DOOR Compromise Fails – Attempts to decide how to deal with slavery fail to solve the issue.

the Missouri Compromise of 1820, Also limits slavery in the Western Territories North of the line of Missouri’s Southern border

My Door !

No Slavery

Slavery OK

4 A DOOR Compromise Fails – Attempts to decide how to deal with slavery fail to solve the issue.

The Compromise of 1850, California is admitted as a Free state even though half of it falls below the Missouri Compromise line.

My Door !

4 A DOOR Compromise Fails – Attempts to decide how to deal with slavery fail to solve the issue.

My Door !

The Compromise of 1850, Strengthens the Fugitive Slave Act which angers the North and preserves slavery in Washington DC.

4 A DOOR Compromise Fails – Attempts to decide how to deal with slavery fail to solve the issue.

The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 allows white male settlers in those territories to vote and decide if they to want to allow slavery. (popular sovereignty )

My Door !

5 A HIVE The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 allows popular sovereignty - settlers in

those territories are to decide by voting whether or not they would allow slavery.

5 A HIVE PROBLEM ! Settlers swarm across the border into Kansas. From the North come

abolitionists and from the South people called “Border Ruffians” who want Kansas to be a slave state.

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5 A HIVEBLEEDING KANSAS !

The violence that breaks out between the two groups is so much that the Territory becomes known as

____________________  _______________________ .

5 A HIVE One man drawn to the violent conflict in Kansas in a fanatical abolitionist named

John Brown ____________________  _______________________ .

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

6 SOME STICKS

The Rise of the Abolitionist Movement – A growing feeling in the North that slavery is evil and should be abolished.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

An anti-slavery novel by abolitionist author Harriet Beecher Stowe The novel depicts the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love can overcome something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human beings.This was the best-selling novel of the 19th century and is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

6 SOME STICKS

The Rise of the Abolitionist Movement – A growing feeling in the North that slavery is evil and should be abolished.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Dredd Scott

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

6 SOME STICKS

The Rise of the Abolitionist Movement – A growing feeling in the North that slavery is evil and should be abolished.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Dredd Scott

The Underground Railroad

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

6 SOME STICKS

The Rise of the Abolitionist Movement – A growing feeling in the North that slavery is evil and should be abolished.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

The Underground Railroad

Dredd Scott

WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

6 SOME STICKS

The Rise of the Abolitionist Movement – A growing feeling in the North that slavery is evil and should be abolished.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Dredd Scott

The Underground Railroad

WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON

The American Anti-Salvery Society

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

6 SOME STICKS

The Rise of the Abolitionist Movement – A growing feeling in the North that slavery is evil and should be abolished.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Dredd Scott

The Underground Railroad

WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON

The American Anti-Salvery Society

7 HEAVEN

States Rights – The opinion that the individual states should have more sovereign power than the Federal government.

7 HEAVEN

The South is worried that the North would interfere with their states rights and do away with slavery.

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THE WINNER OF THE ELECTION OF 1860

The Election of 1800 and Secession – Abraham Lincoln from the anri-slavery Republican Party wins the election

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GATE

THE WINNER OF THE ELECTION OF 1860

The Election of 1800 and Secession –the South begins to secede (leave) the Union.

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