Causes of the Civil War

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Causes of the Civil War
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North

• Industrialization
• Improved Transportation
• Locomotives and Railway Network
• Faster Communication
• Agriculture

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People in the North

• Factories
• Working Condition and organization
• African American Workers
• Women workers
• Immigration
• Prejudice against immigrants

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The South

• Cotton Kingdom
• Upper South
• Deep South
• Industry in the South
• Barriers to industry
• Factories
• Southern Transportation

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People of the South

• Small Farmers and Rural poor
• Plantations
• Owners
• Wives
• Work

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Life Under Slavery

• Life in cabins
• Family Life
• AA Culture
• Slave Codes
• Resistance to Slavery
• Escaping Slavery
• City life and education

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The Abolitionists

• Early efforts to end slavery.
• The American Colonization Society
• Bought and relocated slaves to Liberia Africa.
• William Lloyd Garrison
• One of the first to call for immediate
  emancipation.
• African American Abolitionists
• Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm, freedoms
  journal 1827
• Frederick Douglass, 421

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The Underground Railroad

• 422

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Clashes over Abolitionism

• Led to an intense reaction against the
  antislavery movement.
• Threatened Southerners way of life.
• Opposition in the North. 424
• Opposition in the South.424

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Womens movement

• Calls for reform.
• Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
• The Seneca Falls Convention 1848.
• Suffrage
• Susan B. Anthony
• Coeducation

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Slavery and the West.

• The Missouri Compromise
• Conflicting views with western lands.
• Wilmot Proviso
• Slavery should be prohibited in any western
  state.
• John C. Calhoun
• Neither congress or any territorial law can
  outlaw slavery.
• Clays Proposal
• California free state, New Mexico no restriction,
  New Mexico border with Texas. Slave Trade
  outlawed in D. C. Stronger Fugitive law.
• The compromise of 1850
• Contained the five main points of Clays
  proposal.

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A Nation Dividing

• The Fugitive Slave Act.
• Required all citizens to help catch fugitive
  slaves.
• The Nebraska-Kansas Act.
• Popular Sovereignty
• Bleeding Kansas
• John Brown-God Chose him to end slavery

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Challenges to Slavery

• Republicans arise.
• Anti-Slavery
• Rally for the establishment of liberty and
  overthrow slave power.
• The election of 1856
• Republican John C. Fremont 174
• Democrat James Buchanan 114
• American Millard Fillmore 8

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The Dred Scott Decision

• 446-997

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Lincoln and Douglas

• Congressional Election of 1858, the senate race
  was the center of national attention.
• Stephan A. Douglas
• Believed popular sovereignty could solve the
  slave problem.
• Abraham Lincoln
• Saw slavery as morally wrong but admittedly did
  not have an easy way of eliminating the problem.
• Debates
• Douglas states that people could exclude slavery
  by refusing to pass laws that give the
  slaveholders rights.

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Raid on Harpers Ferry
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The Election of 1860

• Would the Union break up?
• The issue of slavery broke up the Democratic
  party. They nominated Stephen Douglas and upheld
  popular sovereignty.
• Southern Democrats nominated John C. Breckenridge
  and supported the Dred Scott decision.
• Republicans nominated Abraham Lincoln stating
  that slavery can remain undisturbed but should be
  prohibited in the territories.

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Lincoln Elected

• With Democrats divided Lincoln won a clear
  victory with 180 out of the 303 electoral votes.
• The voting was along purely sectional lines.
  Lincolns name did not even appear on most
  southern ballots.
• Lincolns victory was short lived, the nation he
  was to serve would soon disintegrate.

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The South Secedes

• Many people distrust the Republican Party.
• December 20, 1860 South Carolina secedes.
• John Crittendens proposal.
• Series of amendments to the constitution.
• Protect slavery south of the Mason Dixon Line
  including territories.
• Leaders of the South refuse compromise.
• We spit upon every plan to compromise No human
  power can save the Union

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The Confederacy

• February 1861, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi,
  Alabama, Florida, and Georgia had joined South
  Carolina and seceded. They named their selves the
  Confederate States of America.
• Jefferson Davis was chosen to be the president of
  this new confederacy.
• Many celebrated the secession.