A Mighty Avalanche-Issues Chart

Causes of the Civil War

Missouri Compromise

Missouri applied as a slave state

Henry Clay came up with a compromise

Maine would be admitted as a free state and Missouri would be a slave state

No slavery north of 36º 30’

Missouri – SlaveMaine - Free

NORTH

Missouri Compromise

FOR

SOUTH FOR

Jefferson Davis

Abraham Lincoln

Wilmot Proviso

David Wilmot proposal that slavery be banned in any territories ceded from Mexico

Did not pass both Houses - 1846

Wilmot Proviso

NORTH SOUTH

FOR

AGAINST

Frederick DouglassConfederate Flag

Compromise of 1850US needed to decide what to do with the Mexican Cession

Clay & Douglas proposed that California be admitted as a free state

New Mexico & Utah territories will use popular sovereignty to determine slave issue

A strict Fugitive Slave Act

No slave trade in Washington DC

Compromise of 1850

NORTH SOUTH

Ulysses S. Grant John Wilkes Booth

FOR FOR

Fugitive Slave Act

All Citizens are required to help return runaway slavesSpecial courts were set up without jury trialJudges received more money for deciding someone was a slave than for setting someone freeSome northern states passed “personal liberty laws” as a protest

Fugitive Slave Act

NORTH SOUTH

General William T. Sherman

General Stonewall Jackson

FOR AGAINST

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the novel in 1852

It showed the evils of slavery

Southerners claimed it did not show the true picture as Stowe had never visited the South

This book changed the way many Northerners felt about slavery

NORTH

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

FOR SOUTH

AGAINST

Confederate Map

(Dark Green)

Kansas Nebraska Act

1854

People living in Kansas and Nebraska would be able to vote using popular sovereignty

Proposed by Stephen Douglass

Violated the Missouri Compromise

Led to Bleeding Kansas

Kansas Nebraska Act

NORTH SOUTH

Union Map

(Dark Blue)

AGAINST

FOR

Robert E. Lee

Republican Party

The main goal of the party was to prevent the spread of slavery

In 1856, southerners worried about the anti-slavery sentiment of this party

In 1856 the Democrat James Buchanan defeated the Republican John Fremont

Republican Party

NORTH SOUTH

Abraham Lincoln General Albert S. Johnston

FOR AGAINST

Dred Scott v Sanford

Dred Scott was a fugitive slave who sued for his freedom

The case went to the Supreme Court

The Court ruled that Scott could not sue in court because he was not a citizen – he was property

Congress could not outlaw slavery in any territories

Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional

Dred Scott v Sanford

NORTH SOUTH

Dred Scott Chief Justice Roger Taney

AGAINST

FOR

Lincoln-Douglas Debates1858 Illinois Senate race

Democrat Douglas believed slavery should be decided through popular sovereignty

Republican Abraham Lincoln gained national attention because of his speeches against slavery

(Douglas won the Senate seat)

Harper’s Ferry

John Brown decided to attack the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry to capture weapons for a slave uprising in Virginia

He was captured, tried, and convicted of treason– he was executed

Was he a good guy or bad guy?

Harper’s Ferry

NORTH

John Brown

SOUTH

J.E.B. Stuart

FOR

AGAINST

Election of 1860

Democratic Party split – John Breckinridge and Stephen DouglasRepublican – Abraham LincolnConstitutional Union – John BellLincoln was not on the ballot in 10 Southern statesLincoln won only 39% of the popular vote but 59% of the electoral vote

Election of 1860

NORTH SOUTH

Abraham Lincoln

John Breckinridge-

Southern Democrat

FOR AGAINST

South Carolina Secedes

December 20, 1860 South Carolina secededAlabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, and Texas seceded by February 1861Confederate States of America elected Jefferson Davis as president in their first capital at Montgomery, AlabamaConfederate states began seizing federal property – Fort Sumter, April 11, 1861

South Carolina Secedes

NORTH SOUTH

South Carolina (in red)

White House

AGAINST

FOR