The Civil War

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The Civil War
The Civil War
By Sarah Ann Valentni Alison Gorospe
Alicia Alameda

• Taught by Alison Garaspe
• Alicia Alameda
• Sarah Ann Valentini

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Sectionalism
The greater loyalty that many Americans felt
toward their own section than to the county as a
whole.
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Uncle Toms Cabin
book by Harriet Beecher Stowe showing the evils
of slavery.
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Missouri Compromise admitted Missouri as a
slave state and Maine as a free state prohibited
slavery in the lands of Louisiana Purchase north
of Missouri's southern border (36 30')
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Compromise of 1850 Clay's plan to keep the
balance between free and slave states.
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Fugitive Slave Law required northers to return
runaway slaves
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Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed settlers
to decide by popular sovereignty whether they
wanted slavery.
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Dred-Scott v. Sandford African Americans are
not citizens and have no rights Missouri
Compromise unconstitutional
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John Brown's Raid slave revolt at Harper's Ferry
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Republican Party formed in opposition of
spreading slavery to new territories
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Abraham Lincoln elected in 1860( 16th President)
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There was Secession for the Southto leave the
Union
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Fort Sumterstarted the Civil War
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SOUTH
Confederate favored slavery felt they were
fighting a second war of independence made
living from small farms and plantations wanted
to lower taxes on goods believed in states'
rights
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North
UnionOpposed slaveryFelt they were fighting a
war to free the slavesMade living from factories
and tradeWanted to higher taxes on Europeans
goods so Southerners would buy Northern
productsBelieved that the Union must be saved
above all else