1. Causes of the Civil War

2. North Industrialization Improved Transportation
Locomotives and Railway Network
Faster Communication
Agriculture

3. People in the North Factories Working Condition and organization
African American Workers
Women workers
Immigration
Prejudice against immigrants

4. The South Cotton Kingdom Industry in the South Barriers to industry
Upper South
Deep South
Industry in the South
Barriers to industry
Factories
Southern Transportation

5. People of the South Small Farmers and Rural poor Plantations Owners
Wives
Work

6. Life Under Slavery Life in cabins Family Life AA Culture Slave Codes
Resistance to Slavery
Escaping Slavery
City life and education

7. The Abolitionists Early efforts to end slavery.
The American Colonization Society
Bought and relocated slaves to Liberia Africa.
William Lloyd Garrison
One of the first to call for immediate emancipation.
African American Abolitionists
Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm, freedoms journal 1827
Frederick Douglass, 421

8. The Underground Railroad
422

9. Clashes over Abolitionism
Led to an intense reaction against the antislavery movement.
Threatened Southerners way of life.
Opposition in the North. 424
Opposition in the South.424

10. Womens movement Calls for reform.
Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
The Seneca Falls Convention 1848.
Suffrage
Susan B. Anthony
Coeducation

11. Slavery and the West. The Missouri Compromise
Conflicting views with western lands.
Wilmot Proviso
Slavery should be prohibited in any western state.
John C. Calhoun
Neither congress or any territorial law can outlaw slavery.
Clay’s Proposal
California free state, New Mexico no restriction, New Mexico border with Texas. Slave Trade outlawed in D. C. Stronger Fugitive law.
The compromise of 1850
Contained the five main points of Clay’s proposal.

12. A Nation Dividing The Fugitive Slave Act. The Nebraska-Kansas Act.
Required all citizens to help catch fugitive slaves.
The Nebraska-Kansas Act.
Popular Sovereignty
Bleeding Kansas
John Brown-God Chose him to end slavery

13. Challenges to Slavery Republicans arise. The election of 1856
Anti-Slavery
“Rally for the establishment of liberty and overthrow slave power”.
The election of 1856
Republican John C. Fremont 174
Democrat James Buchanan 114
American Millard Fillmore 8

14. The Dred Scott Decision

15. Lincoln and Douglas
Congressional Election of 1858, the senate race was the center of national attention.
Stephan A. Douglas
Believed popular sovereignty could solve the slave problem.
Abraham Lincoln
Saw slavery as morally wrong but admittedly did not have an easy way of eliminating the problem.
Debates
Douglas states that people could exclude slavery by refusing to pass laws that give the slaveholders rights.

16. Raid on Harpers Ferry

17. The Election of 1860 Would the Union break up?
The issue of slavery broke up the Democratic party. They nominated Stephen Douglas and upheld popular sovereignty.
Southern Democrats nominated John C. Breckenridge and supported the Dred Scott decision.
Republicans nominated Abraham Lincoln stating that slavery can remain undisturbed but should be prohibited in the territories.

18. Lincoln Elected
With Democrats divided Lincoln won a clear victory with 180 out of the 303 electoral votes.
The voting was along purely sectional lines. Lincoln’s name did not even appear on most southern ballots.
Lincolns victory was short lived, the nation he was to serve would soon disintegrate.

19. The South Secedes Many people distrust the Republican Party.
December 20, 1860 South Carolina secedes.
John Crittenden’s proposal.
Series of amendments to the constitution.
Protect slavery south of the Mason Dixon Line including territories.
Leaders of the South refuse compromise.
“We spit upon every plan to compromise” “No human power can save the Union”

20. The Confederacy
February 1861, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Georgia had joined South Carolina and seceded. They named their selves the Confederate States of America.
Jefferson Davis was chosen to be the president of this new confederacy.
Many celebrated the secession.