Civil War - Causes

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Civil War - Causes
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Sectionalism placing of the interest of ones
region ahead of the nation
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Economic Differences

• North
• Tariff on British goods made the sale of Northern
  goods increase
• Northrich!
• Transportation links mass canals, RRs commerce

• South
• Tariff on British goods bad! It reduced exports
  and the British bought less cotton
• Southmad!
• Transportation links no canals, few RRs
  connecting to big cities

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Cultural Differences

• North
• Fast paced lifestyle
• Work outside the home

• South
• Farming
• Old fashioned
• Self-sufficient
• Land of chivalry

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Political Differences

• North
• Federal Power

• South
• State Power

Virginia
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Range of Opinions

• Proslavery
• Southern Plantation owners who believed in
  slavery and its necessity for daily life
• Popular Sovereignty
• Belief that residents of a territory should be
  able to choose for themselves
• Free Soil
• A political party formed to oppose the extension
  of slavery within the US
• Abolition
• The ending of legalized slavery

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Congressional Efforts at Settling the
IssueMissouri Compromise

• Missouri Compromise
• A series of laws enacted in 1820 to maintain the
  balance of power between slave states and free
  states
• Maine free
• Missouri slave

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Congressional Efforts at Settling the
IssueCompromise of 1850 Fugitive Slave Law

• California free Utah and New Mexico use
  popular sovereignty for slavery
• Slave trade in DC is illegal, but not slavery
• Stricter fugitive slave laws

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Congressional Efforts at Settling the
IssuePopular Sovereignty

• Intention to allow people to choose for
  themselves in their own territory
• Effect on Kansas flooded with pro and anti
  slavery folks led to riots
• John Brown remember him?

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Abolitionists

• A person seeking the legal end of slavery!

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Abolitionists

• Frederick Douglass

• Harriet Tubman

• Former slave, lecturer
• Active in the Underground Railroad
• Supported Womens Suffrage, attended Seneca Falls
  convention in 1848

• Conductor on the Underground RR made 19 trips
• Former slave as a child struck on head by
  overseer with a lead weight
• Helped 300 slaves escape
• Had a bounty on her head

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Abolitionists

• Angelina and Sarah Grimke

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Daughters of a SC slaveholder
• Angelina published An Appeal to Christian Women
  of the South
• Raised money petitioned Congress

• Editor of the newspaper called The Liberator,
  published 1831-1865
• Demanded an immediate end to slavery

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

• 1852 published Uncle Toms Cabin
• Lincoln was quoted as saying so this is the
  little lady who started the war

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Civil War Secession Map
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• cwmap.pdf