CPUSH 8 October 2015 To Do: -Research Paper Proposal Final Draft: 10/9 (Friday) EQ: What are the causes for the Civil War? Agenda: -Causes of Civil War Notes -Exit Slip You will need 1 piece(s) of paper

THE CIVIL WAR The Blue and Grey

Main Causes of the Civil War 1. Sectional Issues –Cultural differences –Economic differences –Social differences

STATES RIGHTS ISSUES

Slavery in the South

■¾ of Southern white population did not own slaves. ■Many whites supported slavery because they wanted to eventually own a slave or two and achieve the "American dream" of moving up socially in society

Main Causes of the Civil War 2. Political Issues –Congressional Power –New Territories –Slavery

An Escalating Problem Missouri Compromise 1820 Texas Annexation 1845 Compromise of 1850 What do these decisions have in common?

New Territories ■Gold Rush ■The Bear Republic ■Compromise of 1850 –North: CA enters as a free state –South: Fugitive Slave Law –Both?: popular sovereignty

New Territories ■Popular sovereignty: citizens of each territory would vote on the issue of slavery. ■Free Soil Party: Antislavery Northerners determined to keep new territories from admitting slavery.

New Territories ■Kansas-Nebraska Act –Popular sovereignty –Cancels MO Compromise –“Bleeding Kansas”

“Bully” Brooks

Dred Scott v. Sanford, 1857

■Dred Scott v. Sanford –Slaves are property, not people –Slaves cannot be taken away from their masters without due process –Slavery could exist in the North

Main Causes of the Civil War 3. Abolitionism –Slave Rebellion –Uncle Tom’s Cabin –Abolitionists

Slave Rebellion ■Severity of slavery in the South ■Methods of rebellion ■Nat Turner’s Rebellion ■Underground Railroad

John Brown ■Violent abolitionist who used militant actions to abolish slavery ■Commanded forces in battles in the Bleeding Kansas campaign –At Pottawatomie Creek he killed and chopped up 5 slavery supporters. ■Raid on Harper’s Ferry: –Brown raided a federal arsenal in hopes of inciting slave rebellion. It failed, and he was tried, convicted, and hanged. ■He became an instant martyr for the abolitionist cause.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin ■A novel dramatizing the cruelties of slavery ■It touched readers emotionally and created widespread antislavery support among northerners ■Sold 300,000 copies in the first year

Different perspectives of the book: NorthernersSoutherners “What kinda Yankee abolitionist propaganda is this?!” “What a horribly cruel system!”

■Sojourner Truth- freed black woman who fought for black emancipation and women's rights. ■Frederick Douglass- lectured widely for abolitionism; looked to politics to end slavery. Was a consultant for Abraham Lincoln.

Main Causes of the Civil War 4. The Republican Party –Creation –Election of 1860

The Republican Party ■Members –Free-Soilers, abolitionists –Almost exclusively Northerners ■Platform –Modernization, anti- slavery

Election of 1860 ■Lincoln-Douglas Debates ■Election of 1860 –Lincoln’s promise –South Carolina’s threat

Exit Slip ■What were the causes for the Civil War?