“the war between the states” “brother against brother ”
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“The War Between the States”
“Brother Against Brother”
Causes of and Events Leading Causes of and Events Leading to the Civil Warto the Civil War
• Continual Debate over State’s Rights • Issue of Slavery • Dred Scott Decision 1857• John Brown’s Slave Revolt at
Harper’s Ferry 1859• Election of Abraham Lincoln as 16th
President 1860• Confederate States secede from the
Union 1861
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s publication Uncle Tom’s Cabin fueled the fire of the slavery debate.
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Beecher Stowe
”…that all constitutional means should be used to prevent the increase, to mitigate, and finally to
eradicate the evil of slavery,”
"What I mean by the higher law is,… the law of nature; by which we suppose that God, in giving man his existence, gave him the right to exist; the right to breathe vital air; the right to enjoy the light of the sun; to drink the waters of the earth; to unfold his moral nature; to learn the laws that control his moral and physical being; to bring himself into harmony with those laws, and enjoy that happiness which is consequent on such obedience,… was the theory of that law applied to the condition of African slavery in the United States?
Unquestionably, to all.”-John Brown
Frederick
Douglas
John Brown Took Harper's Ferry Hostage
October 16, 1859•
John Brown's raid was perhaps the final spark that ignited the Civil War. Certainly the words he spoke at his death would be remembered: "Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life, for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and MINGLE MY BLOOD FURTHER WITH THE BLOOD OF MY CHILDREN, and with the blood of millions in this Slave country, whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments -- I say LET IT BE DONE."
Amidst the country’s unrest, citizens dutifully elected their leader. But this
unifying action did not unify the nation.
Lincoln Quote of the Week
"I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel."--From the April 4, 1864 Letter to A.G. Hodges
Letter to Fort Sumter from
Abraham Lincoln
This letter was sent to Captain Anderson
with the newly elected President’s
assurance of support just prior to
the fall of Fort Sumter .
Dred Scott Decision 1857John Brown’s Slave Revolt at
Harper’s Ferry 1859
Continual Debate over State’s Rights
Issue of SlaveryElection of Abraham Lincoln as
16th President 1860Confederate States secede from
the Union 1861
The gap between brother and brother grew until finally the country was
walking down
Dred Scott Decision 1857John Brown’s Slave Revolt at
Harper’s Ferry 1859Continual Debate over State’s
RightsIssue of Slavery
Election of Abraham Lincoln as 16th President 1860
Confederate States secede from the Union 1861
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