1. Chapter 5, Lesson 3 Compromise and Conflict
Causes of the Civil War
Chapter 5, Lesson 3
Compromise and Conflict

2. Growth of slavery
States’ Rights
Tariffs
Multiple Compromises/ new laws

3. Growth of Slavery South used slaves to help farm
Cotton- South’s most important crop
Needed more and more slaves to grow it.
Northerners did not agree with slavery

4. States’ Rights
The idea that the states should have more power than the federal government
Basically the federal government should not have all the power.
I don’t like it when my parents tell me what to do all the time.
I want to make my own choices and wear my sunglasses when I want!

5. What should Congress do to make both sides happy?
Slave State? or
Free State?
What should Congress do to make both sides happy?

6. The Union – another name for the united states- decided to create the…
Congress tried to keep an equal number of slave and free states.
They argues over when territories would have slavery. Northerners mostly wanted free states and Southerners wanted slave states.
The Union – another name for the united states- decided to create the…

7. Missouri Compromise, 1820
Missouri wanted to be a slave state…but the North said that wouldn’t be fair
Missouri- slave state
Maine- free state
It also create invisible line across U.S.

8. Solutions to the Problem
North of the line = Free States
South of the line = Slave states

9. Compromise of 1850
Government let some territories make their own decision….to be a slave state or to be a free state
is the right of people to make political decisions for themselves
Popular sovereignty

10. Kansas- Nebraska Act
Nebraska Territory and Kansas Territory gained the right to choose whether they wanted to have slaves or not
Now, even territories above the invisible line could have slaves!!

11. Besides handling which states are free and which are slave…
Fugitive Slave Law
Fugitive: runaway slave
Law states that North must return any slaves that have run away from South
You can’t catch me
Get back here!

12. Harriet Beecher Stowe A writer from New England
Against the Fugitive Slave Law
Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin,
described the cruelty of slavery
Book sold 300,000
Convinced many Northerners that slavery was wrong!
Arguments pushed the N vs. S further apart.

13. Dred Scott Decision
Man named Dred Scott living in Missouri (slave state)
Wanted freedom because he once lived in Illinois (free state)
Court said Scott had “none of the rights and privileges” of American citizens
Also said Congress had no right to outlaw slavery because the Constitution protects people’s right to own PROPERTY and slaves were PROPERTY!!!

14. John Brown’s Raid John Brown- an abolitionist
Attacked US Army post at Harpes Ferry
Northerners saw him as a hero.
But he was hanged for treason

15. In short…
Made South mad…
Fugitive Slave Act
John Brown’s raid
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
High tariffs on goods
Made North mad…
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Dred Scott Decision
The South wanted states’ rights… meaning they didn’t want to be told what to do by the federal government…

16. The South decided to seceed!
In other words, they separated from the rest of the United States.