1. Causes of the Civil War Notes
5th Grade

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

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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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