Civil War - Causes

Sectionalism: placing of the interest of one’s region ahead of the nation

Economic Differences North –Tariff on British goods made the sale of Northern goods increase –North=rich! –Transportation links: mass canals, RRs = commerce South –Tariff on British goods bad! It reduced exports and the British bought less cotton –South=mad! –Transportation links: no canals, few RRs connecting to big cities

Cultural Differences North –Fast –paced lifestyle –Work outside the home South –Farming –Old fashioned –Self-sufficient –Land of chivalry

Political Differences North –Federal Power South –State Power Virginia

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

Congressional Efforts at Settling the Issue Missouri 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

Congressional Efforts at Settling the Issue Compromise 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

Congressional Efforts at Settling the Issue Popular 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?

Abolitionists A person seeking the legal end of slavery!

Abolitionists Frederick Douglass Former slave, lecturer Active in the Underground Railroad Supported Women’s Suffrage, attended Seneca Falls convention in 1848 Harriet Tubman 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

Abolitionists Angelina and Sarah Grimke Daughters of a SC slaveholder Angelina published An Appeal to Christian Women of the South Raised money petitioned Congress William Lloyd Garrison Editor of the newspaper called The Liberator, published Demanded an immediate end to slavery

Harriet Beecher Stowe 1852 published Uncle Tom’s Cabin Lincoln was quoted as saying: “so this is the little lady who started the war”

Civil War Secession Map

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