Agenda:

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Agenda

• Hand in the bookwork from yesterday.
• Modified Cornell Notes on social causes of Civil
  War
• Only doing first 2 sides, the notes will be
  finished on Monday.
• RAFT 2
• Many of you are still missing RAFT 1
• Talking and disrespectful behavior will have us
  returning to textbooks for Monday.

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Civil War1861-1865
Abraham Lincoln President of the Union (North)
Jefferson Davis President of the Confederate
States of America (South)
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• As the nation grew, more states were created.
• The united States became increasingly divided
  over the issues of slavery and states rights.

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• The Civil war began in April 1861 and ended April
  1865.
• A civil war is when a war between different
  sections of the same country

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The two sides of the Civil War

• The two sides were the North and South
• The north is referred to as the Union.
• The south is referred to as the Confederacy.
• (Confederate States of America)

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Why did we kill each other?

• The civil war is thought to have been fought over
  slavery.
• When it was really a fight over states rights.

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• In the end, 3 million fought and 600,000 died.
• Do you know what this monument is of?

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Setting the StageThe road to Civil War

• Causes of the Civil War

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Uncle Toms Cabin

• Published in 1852, this book is written by
  Harriet Beecher Stowe, a woman from New England.
  She sought to expose the evils of slavery by
  telling the story of an enslaved character named
  Uncle Tom.

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Main Points

• Written by a northerner, Harriet Beecher Stowe.
• Was popular among northerners confirmed their
  belief that slavery was morally wrong.
• Outraged southerners felt it did not give an
  accurate picture of slave life.

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Dred Scott Decision, 1857

• Dred Scott was a slave who had lived in Missouri
  (slave state). He lived in several places with
  his owner, eventually in Wisconsin (free state).
  Upon their return to Missouri and his owners
  death, Scott sued for his freedom because he had
  been free at one time.

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Main Points

• Resulted in Supreme Court Decision
• Declared that slaves were NOT citizens
• Declared that Congress did not have the power to
  outlaw slavery in any territory declared the
  Missouri Compromise unconstitutional

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John Brown (1856)

• John Brown was an
• abolitionist, who believed
• God chose him to end slavery
• Kansas was becoming a violent state
• May 1856, slavery supporters burned down the
  governors house and newspaper offices
• He vowed to strike terror in the hearts of the
  proslavery people.
• John Brown led his 4 sons to capture and kill 5
  slave supporters
• Event became known as Bleeding Kansas (see
  previous notes)

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John Brown (1859)

• Southerners became afraid of Republican
  (Northern) power violence
• John Brown and 18 men attacked a federal arsenal
  (a storage place for weapons and ammunition) in
  Harpers Ferry, Virginia
• Hoped to inspire Africans Americans to revolt
  against slaveholders
• John Brown and his men were captured by federal
  troops and charged with treason (and was
  sentenced to hang)
• John Brown would be viewed in history as a
  martyr, a person who died for a great cause