1. 2F=Causes and Effects of the Civil War
South/
Confederacy/
Gray
North/ Union/
Blue
H-SS Examine the effects of the Civil War and Reconstruction and of the Industrial revolution, including demographic shifts and the emergence in the late nineteenth century of the United States as a world power.

2. Manifest Destiny
Doctrine which stated that westward expansion of the United States was inevitable and a god-given right

4. Economic differences divide the agrarian South and industrial North
Agrarian-farmers; interests of farmers---Mooo!

5. The North or Union had more industrial capacity
The South or Confederate side based on agricultural export crops-tobacco, cotton

7. Abolitionist movement grows in the North
Insisted that owning another human was morally wrong
2 million Americans treated as property and forced into labor
Slaves could be whipped or sold at any time regardless of family ties

8. Issue: Keeping a balance of “Free” and “Slave” states as nation grew
Issue: Keeping a balance of “Free” and “Slave” states as nation grew. Why? so one side could not change laws for or against slavery
1820 Missouri Compromise
Missouri = slave
Maine = free
Both states admitted at same time; and the 36 30’ N Latitude line set as divide between slave and free territory

10. In 1850 California applied to enter as a free state
Congress passed Compromise of it admitted California as a free state, however, any other new states in the territory acquired from Mexico, would vote and decide for themselves if they were a free or slave state which is
Popular Sovereignty

13. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
A book by Harriet Beecher Stowe became a best seller. It increased
opposition to slavery in the North-antislavery novel

14. Violence in Kansas
In 1854 Congress divided Nebraska Territory into Kansas and Nebraska
Each area would use popular sovereignty to determine if free or slave
Settlers rushed in to try to est. each state as free or slave-started a shooting war

15. Dred Scot vs. Sandford
Dred Scott’s master took him from a slave state to a free state to live and work
Scott sued him; He felt crossing the state line set him free

16. Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)-Supreme Court decision that widened growing division over slavery
Issue: U.S. Constitution made slavery legal- If the gov’t did not allow a slave owner to bring his property (slaves) anywhere he/she wanted to (i.e. into the Western Territories), then the gov’t would be breaking the slave owner’s rights to his property.
Remember: natural rights; life, liberty, property-John Locke- Dec. of Independence

17. In Dred Scott-the Supreme Court ruled that slaves had no right to sue anyone since they were property (like being sued by your car).
In addition, ruled that federal gov’t did not have power to ban slavery in any territory and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional because it deprived them of their property w/o due process

18. Election of Abraham Lincoln leads to secession of southern states (Southern States left the Union)

20. Confederate troops fire on Fort Sumter starting the Civil War

21. Civil War (1861-1865) Confederacy is defeated and the Union restored
Anaconda Plan
Total War -destroy
a country’s ability
to make war

22. 13th Amendment abolished slavery

23. 14th Amendment – Grant U. S. citizenship to everyone born in the U. S
14th Amendment – Grant U.S. citizenship to everyone born in the U.S. & offers equal protection under the law to all.
15th Amendment – Grants African-American males the right to vote.

24. Much of the South lies in ruins after the war

25. Radical Reconstruction put the South under military
rule that lasted until 1876

26. African Americans in South temporarily gain political rights
But soon loose them once white southern power restored