•Adding Fuel to the Fire •Causes of the Civil War

• Part I• Your name• Your hour

Causes of the Civil

War Part 2

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Sectionalism

*Kansas-Nebraska Act

*Missouri Compromise

Popular Sovereignty

•Causes of the Civil War •Part II

•Your Name•Your Hour

Causes of the Civil

War

Part 1

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Compromise of 1850

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Secession

1. SECTIONALISM

• An exaggerated loyalty to a particular region or country.

2. Missouri Compromise

• Written by Henry Clay• Kept balance equal in the Senate• 1820• Missouri would be a slave state• Maine would be a free state• Any land north of the 36`30˚N line

of latitude would be free, that was purchased in the Louisiana Purchase.

9. Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Proposed by Stephen Douglass• May 1854• 1. Kansas would become a territory.• 2. Nebraska would become a

territory.• 3. They would have popular

sovereignty.• Overthrew part of the Missouri

Compromise.

8. Popular Sovereignty

• Allows the people to decide on slavery (or the current issue)

5. Compromise of 1850• Henry Clay – 5 part plan• 1850• 1. California would be free state• 2. New Mexico Territory no

restrictions on slavery (popular sovereignty)

• 3. New Mexico/Texas border dispute settled in favor of New Mexico

• 4. No slave trade, but slavery would be allowed in District of Columbia.

• 5. Stronger fugitive slave laws

7. Uncle Tom’s Cabin

• Father was a minister • Harriet Beecher Stowe Wrote the

book• Husband was a religion professor• abolitionist• book sold over 300,000 copies• Told of horrors, brutalities of

slavery

17. Secession

• To withdrawal from the union.

6. Fugitive Slave Act

• 1850• Required all citizens to help catch

runaways or be fined up to $1,000 or imprisoned.

• Angered people in the North

10. Bleeding Kansas

• Pro/Anti slavery supporters fought over slavery issues

• Lawrence was the antislavery capital (two newspapers), burned town by pro-supporters.

• Border ruffians (Missourians would come vote unfairly)

• Potawattomie Massacre – John Brown (Abolitionists- God made him do it!)

11. Civil War

• A conflict between citizens of the same country.

12. Formation of the Republican Party

• 1854• Wisconsin• Abraham Lincoln• Antislavery

Whigs, Democrats, Free-soilers wanted to overthrow slave power.

13. Dred Scott Decision1. Enslaved African American bought by

Missouri (slave) Army Doctor.2. 1830 Dr. moves to Illinois (free)

Wisconsin (free) – HAS FREE PAPERS3. Dr. dies – family moves back to

Missouri (slave) 18464. Dred sues for freedom he has had for

16 years.5. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger

Taney said slaves are property and they have NO rights.

3. Wilmot Proviso

• Said slavery should be prohibited in any lands acquired from Mexico – New Mexico– Arizona– Texas– Colorado

• This did NOT pass!

14. Lincoln/Douglas Debates

• Senate elections• Met 7 times• Douglas predicts the Civil War• Douglas supports Popular

Sovereignty • Douglas – Democrat• Lincoln – Republican• Lincoln says “slavery is morally

wrong” stop the spread of slavery.

15.John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia

• October 16, 1859• Led 18 black/whites to federal

arsenal• Wanted to spark upraising with

enslaved people• Plan failed (no back up plan)• Captured by Robert E. Lee• Tried, found guilty, hanged

16. Election of 1860

• 1. Stephen A. Douglas – Democrat• 2 John Breckinridge – South

Democrat• 3. Abraham Lincoln – Republican• 4. John Bell – Constitution Party

• Battle over Slavery• Lincoln WON

18. December 20, 1860

• South Carolina was the first to secede from the Union.

19. February 1, 1861

• Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia joined South Carolina and left the Union.

20. Confederate States of America

• Jefferson Davis chosen as President

• Name given to Southern States who had seceded from the Union.

21. States’ Rights

• Southern states thought they should have more power than the Constitutions.

4. Free-Soil Party

• New political party• 1848• Martin Van Buren Candidate• Endorsed (supported) Wilmot

Proviso• Free soil, free speech, free labor,

free men• Against slavery

March 4, 1861

• Buchanan left office• Lincoln sworn in – said Southern

states had NO right to secede. Vowed to hold federal property in South and enforce laws of United States.

23. April 12, 1861

• Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, while they waited on supplies from the North

• Confederates start the Civil War• Lincoln orders 75,000 troops to the

South.