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Causes of the civil war power point

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The Civil War began due to longstanding tensions between the Northern and Southern states over the issues of slavery and states' rights. The Northern states relied on industry and opposed the expansion of slavery, while the Southern states relied on agriculture and the institution of slavery. Several attempts were made to reach compromises on the issues through political measures like the Compromise of 1850, but tensions continued to rise due to events like the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin, the Kansas-Nebraska Act leading to violence in Kansas, and the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision. In 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected President as the first Republican candidate, and in response several Southern states seceded to form the Confederate States of America.

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Causes of the Civil War
The North relies on industry and commerce The South relies on plantations and agriculture North - Industry South- Agriculture
Major export of the South is cotton The South invests in slaves, not factories and railroads Cotton plant
WILMOT PROVISO a bill to outlaw any slavery in land obtained from the war with Mexico
It passed in the House of Representatives but not the Senate Created major tensions between North & South
California wants to enter as a free state this would upset the balance of power between free and slave FREE STATES SLAVE STATES
COMPROMISE OF 1850 a plan offered by Henry Clay, a senator from Kentucky Henry Clay
Compromise of 1850: California enters as a free state and slave trade is abolished in Washington D.C. FREE =
Compromise of 1850: 2) Congress passes tougher fugitive slaves laws and agrees to not ban slavery in areas received in the Mexican War
http://civilwar.gatech.edu/histgis/image2a.jpg SLAVERY IN 1860
COMPROMISE OF 1850 a temporary solution to the free state / slave state debate as the nation grew
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE - author of Uncle Toms Cabin, an important book to the abolitionist movement
President Lincoln once met her and said: So, youre the lady that started this whole war.
UNLCE TOMS CABIN - a novel about a runaway slave escaping to the North, makes people aware of the issue of slavery, sells hundreds of thousands of copies
the plot of Uncle Toms Cabin is the story of the life of a slave named Tom Includes some stories of escapes to freedom
FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT - a law that said slaves could be arrested without an arrest warrant and brought back to their owner in the South
Southerners felt the Fugitive Slave Act was justified because slaves were viewed as property
The Fugitive Slave Act brought the issue of slavery to the North Northerners now had to face the slavery issue
the Nebraska Territory was now the new controversy
Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois proposes the KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT to create Nebraska and Kansas Territories
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Each territory will be able to decide whether they want to be a free or slave state - POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY
This act would replace the Missouri Compromise in deciding free or slave states
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people for and against slavery now moved to this area to be able to vote on this issue
Many people voted illegally and fights break out in Kansas - this becomes known as BLEEDING KANSAS An attack on Lawrence becomes known as the Sack of Lawrence BLEEDING KANSAS
JOHN BROWN is in Kansas and begins to become a strict abolitionist He will become an important figure later
Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts is attacked on the floor of the Senate and hit over 30 times with a cane by a slavery supporter An attack even happened in Congress
ATTACK ON SENATOR SUMNER ON FLOOR OF THE SENATE
REPUBLICAN PARTY a political party formed in the mid 1850s, majority supported the end to slavery
JAMES BUCHANAN Democratic nominee for president (1856), said main goal was to maintain the Union (keep the United States together)
Buchanan won the election of 1856 but it showed that the anti-slavery side had a great deal of power ANTI-SLAVERY
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 1856
DRED SCOTT an African American who had been a slave and moved by his master to a state where slavery was illegal
DRED SCOTT CASE Scott sued for his freedom, claiming that since he was held as a slave where it was illegal he should be free (1857)
Supreme Court ruled that blacks had no rights and could not be citizens, therefore Scott could not sue for his freedom. Northerners were outraged and Southerners were happy
ROGER B TANEY Chief Justice of the Supreme Court ruled in the Dred Scott case (Taney was a slave owner from Frederick, MD)
ABRAHAM LINCOLN ran for the Illinois senate seat in 1858, was a Republican
LINCOLN DOUGLAS DEBATES Lincoln and Stephen Douglas held formal debates throughout Illinois about the issue of slavery
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Douglas wins the election for the Senate but Lincoln gains national attention because of these debates
HARPERS FERRY a United States weapon arsenal in Virginia
JOHN BROWNS PLAN Brown wanted to capture the weapons arsenal and then start a slave rebellion
John Browns plan does not work no slaves join his rebellion Brown is arrested and charged with treason and murder he is sentenced to hang
the North feels Brown is a hero, the South is glad he is dead His death brings the slavery issue to the boiling point
The Republican party chooses ABRAHAM LINCOLN as their presidential nominee for the 1860 election http://www.si.edu/archives/ihd/jhp/lincoln.jpg
Democrats could not agree on how slavery would be explained in their PLATFORM PLATFORM statements or beliefs, usually on behalf of a political party
The northern and southern Democrats cannot agree so they have two nominees Northern Democrats Stephen Douglas Southern Democrats John Breckinridge
Republicans Abraham Lincoln Southern Democrats John Breckinridge Northern Democrats Stephen Douglas Constitutional Union John Bell ELECTION OF 1860
http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/kurt.mayer/graphics/LincolnElectl.jpg
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 1860 http://www.multied.com/PageMill_Images/image31.gif
http://www.giltroy.com/Courseweb/pres1860.gif
Lincoln wins many votes in the North and since the North has a larger population he wins the election http://www.wildwestweb.net/cwleaders/Abraham%20Lincoln.jpg
The South is afraid that Lincoln will now try to abolish slavery in the United States
SECEDE to withdraw from the Union, split with the country South Carolina becomes the first to secede on December 20, 1860
In the next six weeks more states secede: Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas
These states form their own country THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA
JEFFERSON DAVIS is elected president of the Confederate States of America http://www.military.com/pics/davis1.jpg
Northerners felt that secession was unconstitutional and the South did NOT have the right to leave X
Lincoln becomes the 16 th president in March of 1861
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Lincoln tells the South in his Inaugural Address that he will not interfere with slavery where it already exists, and will not attack the South, but will protect and defend the US government if attacked
THE END

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Causes of the civil war power point

  • 1. Causes of the Civil War
  • 2. The North relies on industry and commerce The South relies on plantations and agriculture North - Industry South- Agriculture
  • 3. Major export of the South is cotton The South invests in slaves, not factories and railroads Cotton plant
  • 4. WILMOT PROVISO a bill to outlaw any slavery in land obtained from the war with Mexico
  • 5. It passed in the House of Representatives but not the Senate Created major tensions between North & South
  • 6. California wants to enter as a free state this would upset the balance of power between free and slave FREE STATES SLAVE STATES
  • 7. COMPROMISE OF 1850 a plan offered by Henry Clay, a senator from Kentucky Henry Clay
  • 8. Compromise of 1850: California enters as a free state and slave trade is abolished in Washington D.C. FREE =
  • 9. Compromise of 1850: 2) Congress passes tougher fugitive slaves laws and agrees to not ban slavery in areas received in the Mexican War
  • 11. COMPROMISE OF 1850 a temporary solution to the free state / slave state debate as the nation grew
  • 12. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE - author of Uncle Toms Cabin, an important book to the abolitionist movement
  • 13. President Lincoln once met her and said: So, youre the lady that started this whole war.
  • 14. UNLCE TOMS CABIN - a novel about a runaway slave escaping to the North, makes people aware of the issue of slavery, sells hundreds of thousands of copies
  • 15. the plot of Uncle Toms Cabin is the story of the life of a slave named Tom Includes some stories of escapes to freedom
  • 16. FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT - a law that said slaves could be arrested without an arrest warrant and brought back to their owner in the South
  • 17. Southerners felt the Fugitive Slave Act was justified because slaves were viewed as property
  • 18. The Fugitive Slave Act brought the issue of slavery to the North Northerners now had to face the slavery issue
  • 19. the Nebraska Territory was now the new controversy
  • 20. Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois proposes the KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT to create Nebraska and Kansas Territories
  • 21. 油
  • 22. Each territory will be able to decide whether they want to be a free or slave state - POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY
  • 23. This act would replace the Missouri Compromise in deciding free or slave states
  • 24. 油
  • 25. people for and against slavery now moved to this area to be able to vote on this issue
  • 26. Many people voted illegally and fights break out in Kansas - this becomes known as BLEEDING KANSAS An attack on Lawrence becomes known as the Sack of Lawrence BLEEDING KANSAS
  • 27. JOHN BROWN is in Kansas and begins to become a strict abolitionist He will become an important figure later
  • 28. Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts is attacked on the floor of the Senate and hit over 30 times with a cane by a slavery supporter An attack even happened in Congress
  • 29. ATTACK ON SENATOR SUMNER ON FLOOR OF THE SENATE
  • 30. REPUBLICAN PARTY a political party formed in the mid 1850s, majority supported the end to slavery
  • 31. JAMES BUCHANAN Democratic nominee for president (1856), said main goal was to maintain the Union (keep the United States together)
  • 32. Buchanan won the election of 1856 but it showed that the anti-slavery side had a great deal of power ANTI-SLAVERY
  • 34. DRED SCOTT an African American who had been a slave and moved by his master to a state where slavery was illegal
  • 35. DRED SCOTT CASE Scott sued for his freedom, claiming that since he was held as a slave where it was illegal he should be free (1857)
  • 36. Supreme Court ruled that blacks had no rights and could not be citizens, therefore Scott could not sue for his freedom. Northerners were outraged and Southerners were happy
  • 37. ROGER B TANEY Chief Justice of the Supreme Court ruled in the Dred Scott case (Taney was a slave owner from Frederick, MD)
  • 38. ABRAHAM LINCOLN ran for the Illinois senate seat in 1858, was a Republican
  • 39. LINCOLN DOUGLAS DEBATES Lincoln and Stephen Douglas held formal debates throughout Illinois about the issue of slavery
  • 40. 油
  • 41. Douglas wins the election for the Senate but Lincoln gains national attention because of these debates
  • 42. HARPERS FERRY a United States weapon arsenal in Virginia
  • 43. JOHN BROWNS PLAN Brown wanted to capture the weapons arsenal and then start a slave rebellion
  • 44. John Browns plan does not work no slaves join his rebellion Brown is arrested and charged with treason and murder he is sentenced to hang
  • 45. the North feels Brown is a hero, the South is glad he is dead His death brings the slavery issue to the boiling point
  • 46. The Republican party chooses ABRAHAM LINCOLN as their presidential nominee for the 1860 election http://www.si.edu/archives/ihd/jhp/lincoln.jpg
  • 47. Democrats could not agree on how slavery would be explained in their PLATFORM PLATFORM statements or beliefs, usually on behalf of a political party
  • 48. The northern and southern Democrats cannot agree so they have two nominees Northern Democrats Stephen Douglas Southern Democrats John Breckinridge
  • 49. Republicans Abraham Lincoln Southern Democrats John Breckinridge Northern Democrats Stephen Douglas Constitutional Union John Bell ELECTION OF 1860
  • 51. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 1860 http://www.multied.com/PageMill_Images/image31.gif
  • 53. Lincoln wins many votes in the North and since the North has a larger population he wins the election http://www.wildwestweb.net/cwleaders/Abraham%20Lincoln.jpg
  • 54. The South is afraid that Lincoln will now try to abolish slavery in the United States
  • 55. SECEDE to withdraw from the Union, split with the country South Carolina becomes the first to secede on December 20, 1860
  • 56. In the next six weeks more states secede: Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas
  • 57. These states form their own country THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA
  • 58. JEFFERSON DAVIS is elected president of the Confederate States of America http://www.military.com/pics/davis1.jpg
  • 59. Northerners felt that secession was unconstitutional and the South did NOT have the right to leave X
  • 60. Lincoln becomes the 16 th president in March of 1861
  • 61. 油
  • 62. Lincoln tells the South in his Inaugural Address that he will not interfere with slavery where it already exists, and will not attack the South, but will protect and defend the US government if attacked