Causes Leading to the Civil War

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Causes Leading to the Civil War
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Leading to a Civil War

• Causes Leading to A Civil War
• 1. Conspiracy
• President
  Country
• North Lincoln 1860 USA
• South J. Davis 1861 CSA
• Each side felt the other was conspiring against
  the other
• Laws measures that inhibited the south - DAVIS
• Congress controlled by north
• North doesn't want to control south - south wants
• to expand into the west LINCOLN
• Each side didn't trust in an economic or
  political sense

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• Causes Leading to A Civil War
• 2. Constitutional
• UNITED STATES VS. STATES UNITED
• South - separate individual states form the union
• since states formed the union they can opt out
• North - the union created the states by the
  constitution
• If the union is dissolved there is nothing
• LINCOLN WAS FIGHTING TO SAVE THE UNION NOT TO
  FREE THE SLAVES (a political move)
• Lincoln was a federalist constitutionalist

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• Causes Leading to A Civil War
• 3. Growth of Slavery
• South had 4 million slaves
• Slave owners 25
• 17 1-9 slaves
• 7 10-99 slaves
• .1 100
• very few had large plantations
• small minority of controlling whites
  controlled southern society
• Labor intensive agricultural society
• slaves imported because can't get enough
  whites to do the labor

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• Causes Leading to A Civil War
• 3. Slavery
• Davis - the Blacks have a better condition under
  the superior White race
• docile savages to bodily comforts and
  religious instruction
• Lincoln - not in favor of bringing about the
  social or economic equality of Negroes
  There must be the position of
  inferior/superior
• Lincoln 1858
• Lincoln was a product of his own culture
• Freeing of slaves not a matter of equality!!!
• Yet he was against the concept of slavery
• SAVE THE UNION

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• Causes Leading to A Civil War
• 4. Economic
• Labor
• South - free labor North - paid labor
• Tariffs
• North wanted to protect their products
  artificial inflation of imports
• South faced reciprocal tariffs when they
  exported their agricultural products
• South Against High Tariffs
• North Against Free Labor

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• Causes Leading to A Civil War
• 4. Economic
• North passes laws in congress because of an
  imbalance in voting power
• 19 Free States
• 15 Slave States

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• Causes Leading to A Civil War
• 5. Nature of a Republic
• What is a Republic?
• Representative Democracy
• Freedom to choose
• South choose to leave under this freedom
• Under another system this would not have
  happened!

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• ". . . it presents the question whether
  discontented individuals too few in numbers to
  control administration according to organic law
  in any case, can always upon the pretenses made
  in this case, or on any other pretense, break up
  their government, and thus practically put an end
  to free government upon the earth. It forces us
  to ask Is there, in all republics, this inherent
  and fatal weakness? Must a government, of
  necessity be too strong for the liberties of its
  own people or too weak to maintain its own
  existence?"
• Lincoln - July 4, 1861
• following Ft. Sumter

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• our heritage depends on inherent weakness of
  a republic to strong to maintain liberties yet
  too weak to maintain its existence.
• Abraham Lincoln

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• Causes Leading to the Civil War
• Conspiracy
• Constitutional
• Slavery
• Economic
• Nature of a Republic
• 1600 ---------------1787--------------1865--------
  -------2000
• Colonial Am. Nation Civil War
• Civil War 265 years since beginnings of our
  country