Causes of the Civil War Notes 5th Grade

North Industrial/manufacturing north “free labor”- could choose their own jobs Crowded Small farms Disagreed with slavery

South Agricultural south Large farms called plantations Relied on “slave labor” to make money Most important crop was cotton Approved of slavery

Missouri Compromise Wanted to keep an equal number of slave and free states Missouri was added to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state Boundary line was established: north of the line were free states, south of the line were slave states

Abolitionist Abolitionist are people who want to end slavery Helped slaves on the underground railroad Frederick Douglas, Harriet Tubman, Henry “Box” Brown, John Brown, Sojourner Truth

Compromise of 1850 California became a free state They stopped selling slaves in D.C. Fugitive Slave Act was passed by congress- this meant that the escaped slaves had to be returned to their slave owners

Kansas-Nebraska Act Let the people of each territory decide whether to be a slave state or a free state This act overrode the Missouri Compromise Called “bleeding Kansas” in the 1850’s because violent fights about slavery

Abraham Lincoln Was elected president in 1860 Southern slave owners were upset Southern states separated themselves from the Union and called themselves the Confederates States