Essential Question for the Road to Civil War:

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Essential Question for the Road to Civil War

• Why did the Civil War happen?

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Northern industry/ mass production

• The north had more factories and were more
  industrialized

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Railroad network

• The North developed more railroads in the 1850s
  1860s. The Midwest east were united

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Cotton
Helped the Southern economy, especially in the
deep south where it was the main crop.
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Impact of Cotton on slaves
As the demand for cotton increased, so did the
demand for slaves. Most worked as field hands
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Impact of Cotton on slaves
As the demand for cotton increased, so did the
demand for slaves. Most worked as field hands
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Life of a slave
Spirituals were religious folk songs that often
combined Christian faith and earthly suffering
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Slave codes

• It prohibited slaves from being in large groups,
  leaving the plantation without a pass, teaching
  slaves to read or write, and having a gun

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Nat Turner
Led a slave revolt in 1831
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Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman

• A network of safe houses that assisted runaway
  slaves in gaining freedom

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Sectionalism

• Differences between the North, South West
  developed led to exaggerated loyalty to their
  region

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Missouri Compromise

• Missouri came into the Union as a slave state
  Maine came as a free state. It preserved the
  balance in the Senate

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Compromise of 1850

• The land from the Mexican Cession is open to
  slavery by popular sovereignty

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Fugitive Slave Act

• This angered Northerners because anyone who did
  not help in catching runaway slaves could be
  fined up to 1,000 or be imprisoned

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Uncle Toms Cabin- Harriet Beecher Stowe
" So youre the little lady that caused such a
great war"- Abraham Lincoln
Harriet Beecher Stowe

• The book made slavery look cruel and convinced
  many northerners that slavery was bad

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Popular sovereignty

• Allowing people to decide

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Allowed settlers to decide if slavery would be
  allowed in their state.

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Border ruffians

• Armed proslavery supporters from Missouri
• who crossed into Kansas to vote for slavery

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Bleeding Kansas/ Civil War

• Rival proslavery antislavery governments
  existed both sides were fighting each other in
  a Civil War

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Republican Party

• Antislavery Whigs, Democrats, Free-Soilers
  created this party to ban slavery from new
  territories

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Dread Scott case
Supreme Court decision that allowed slavery in
all of the territories angered many northerners
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Lincoln-Douglas Debate
A House divided against itself can not stand

• Abraham Lincoln Stephen Douglas ran for
  congress in 1858 and debated about slavery.
  Douglas won the election, but Lincoln became
  famous

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John Brown/ Raid on Harpers ferry

• He tried to start a slave revolt. His death
  made him a hero for abolitionists in the North

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Election of 1860

• Lincoln, Breckinridge, Douglas, Bell ran for
  president. Results were based on sectionalism

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Abraham Lincoln

• Lincoln won the election of 1860 even though he
  wasnt on the ballot in most southern states

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Secession

• South Carolina left the union because Lincoln
  won the election of 1860 other southern states
  followed

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Confederate States of America Jefferson Davis
Gray Confederate States of AmericaBlue, Pink,
Red Union States or United States of America

• The southern states who seceded joined together
  chose Jefferson Davis as president

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States Rights
Southern states believed states had more power
than the federal government had a right to
secede
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Fort Sumter

• Confederates attacked the fort starting the war

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