1. Do Now What is the best way to find information in your textbook?
Why should you take notes from your textbook in your own words?

2. Book Work : 4.1 pgs. 156-165 Describe what each term/event is
Directions
Terms/Events
Describe what each term/event is
Explain how it contributed to the Civil War
Should be in your own words
If you copy to book work for word…….FFFFFFFFFFFF FFFFF!!
Compromise of 1850 (p )
Fugitive Slave Act (p.158)
Underground Railroad (p.158)
Kansas-Nebraska Act (p.160)
Republican Party (p.162)
Dred Scott decision (p.162)
The raid of Harpers Ferry (p.163)
Election of Lincoln (p.164)

3. The Civil War

4. Lead up to the Civil War
Missouri Compromise, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Compromise of 1850
debate over slavery
States rights vs. fed gov’t
Dred Scott case
Federal gov’t accepts slavery
Harper’s Ferry
John Brown
growing violent opp to slavery

5. Start of war Election of 1860 South Carolina
Lincoln
not on ballots in South
South Carolina
1st state to secede due to slavery
Secession: to formally leave the union
Other states follow
Fort Sumter (fed base in the South)
1st Southern military aggression against Union

7. Why war? Unconstitutional to leave the Union
South – fighting war to protect slavery and states’ rights
North/Fed. Gov’t –fighting to maintain supremacy of Fed. Gov’t over states and to preserve Union

8. Moral War Abolitionists were always fighting to end slavery
As war goes on, Fed gov’t changes focus of war to issue of morality and ending slavery
Keep other countries out of the war
Keep Americans engaged in the war  easier cause to get behind
Gettysburg Address
Emancipation Proclamation

9. The War Longer than expected
Most Americans died in a single war – 620,000
180,000 African Americans served in the war
54th regiment
Most fought for Union, some forced to fight for Confederacy
Remedial tasks… didn’t get to fight
North’s advantages
Stronger economy and infrastructure
Larger pop
Actually a country – America…The Union
Fighting a moral war
South devastated
Advantages – fighting a defensive war
Disadvantage – smaller pop, weaker economy, less developed infrastructure

10. Natural Rights and the Civil War
Founders had established Natural Rights
Declaration of Independence
Only for white property owners (men)
voting rights
1830s
All white men could vote
Civil War
Natural rights and voting rights expanded to include African American (males)