1. Causes of the Civil War

2. Made it important to keep Congress balanced!!
Compromise of 1850
Made it important to keep Congress balanced!!
Sectionalism— loyalty to your region/section of the country

3. Popular Sovereignty- let the people decide on slavery
Compromise of 1850
Popular Sovereignty- let the people decide on slavery
Lewis Cass

4. Compromise of 1850
Problem + =

5. The Compromise of 1850
Step 1: =
Free State!

6. = Compromise of 1850 Step 2: Popular Sovereignty!
Slavery decided by popular sovereignty in Utah & New Mexico

8. AKA Fugitive Slave Act Compromise of 1850 Step 3:
Stronger fugitive slave laws would be passed

9. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Northerners saw what slavery was really like- many drawn to abolition
Novel that showed the cruelty of slavery
Southerners said book told lies- “slavery was not really like that”
1852
Harriet Beecher Stowe

10. Kansas-Nebraska Act
Slavery decided by popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska
Stephen Douglas
1854

11. Went against Missouri Compromise Line!!
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Went against Missouri Compromise Line!!

12. “Bleeding Kansas” north Why??? south
Americans were divided over slavery!!!
Why???
south
Pro and anti slavery groups rush into Kansas to vote
Both sides form governments. Fighting breaks out!
1855-???

13. Raid on Harper’s Ferry
1859
Motivated by Dred Scott Case- Wanted to end slavery himself by arming slaves
John Brown

14. Raid on Harper’s Ferry Brown was captured and sentenced to death.
Got weapons but no slaves came to get them

15. Raid on Harper’s Ferry
“I believe that to have interfered as I have done…in behalf of His despised poor, was not wrong, but right. Now if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments. -- I submit; so let it be done!“

16. Lincoln wins!! Election of 1860
April 1860: Democrats meet in Charleston, SC
Northern & southern members could not agree on a candidate
Party splits

17. Southern states formally leave the Union
Election of 1860
Secession:
Southern states formally leave the Union
First to secede!
Fears Lincoln would abolish slavery
Lincoln insisted otherwise
Lincoln had stated slavery had to end at some point
December 17, 1860: South Carolina holds secession convention
South Carolina first state to secede

18. Lincoln’s 1st speech as president
Lincoln’s 1st Inaugural Address
“In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn oath to ‘preserve, protect and defend’ it.”
Responsible for War: The South
Lincoln’s 1st speech as president
Lincoln’s Goal: Save the Union

19. Confederate States of America
South Carolina
Mississippi Florida Alabama Georgia Louisiana Texas Virginia
Arkansas Tennessee North Carolina
President Jefferson Davis
Feb. 1861