1. Causes of The American Civil war
AKS 37, 38
Ch. 10

2. Announcements Test on Friday – Causes of the Civil War
Review on Thursday
Syllabus due with signature on Friday

3. Essential Question (s)
What was the political climate leading up to the Civil War?
Who were the new political parties to arrive on the scene, and what was their impact?

4. What is this map showing us?
How many free and slave states after Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?

5. Whigs Split over slavery
Could not stay together because of disagreement on the Kansas Nebraska Act (1854)
Believed in infrastructure, business

6. Know-Nothing Party Formed in 1854 “I know nothing”
Believed in Nativism
The favoring of native-born Americans over immigrants
Didn’t like Catholics
Split over slavery

7. WHO WERE THE KNOW-NOTHINGS AND WHAT DID THEY BELIEVE IN?

8. Free-Soil Party
Formed in 1848
Opposed slavery in the territories

9. Democratic Party Founded in 1828 Most Southerners were Democrats
Most were pro-slavery with regard to the territories
Advocates of States’ Rights
There were some anti-slavery democrats

10. Republican Party Founded in 1854 Opposed Kansas-Nebraska
Opposed the expansion of slavery in the territories
Mainly Northerners

11. Write a short paragraph answering the following question:
Who were the new political parties to arrive on the scene, and what was their impact?

12. Essential Question(s)
10.4
What were the immediate causes of the Civil War up to and including the election of Abraham Lincoln?

13. Review: The Fugitive Slave Act
Part of The Compromise of 1850
Alleged fugitive slaves not entitled to jury trial

14. Dred Scott v. Sansord (1857)
STORY
Dred Scott was a slave whose owner took him north of the Missouri Compromise line in 1834
He lived in free territory in Illinois and Wisconsin for four years
When Scott’s owner died he sued for his freedom

15. Dred Scott continued…
The Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert B. Taney handed down the decision:
Slaves did not have the rights of citizens
The Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional
Congress could not forbid slavery into the territories; doing so would violate the slaveholders right to property as protected by the Fifth Amendment

16. WHO DO YOU THINK THIS DECISION MADE HAPPY?

17. “God’s Angry Man”

18. John Brown’s Raid - Harpers Ferry
John Brown plans to start a slave uprising, needs weapons
1859, leads band to federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry to get arms
U.S. Marines put down rebellion, capture Brown
Brown is hanged for high treason, December 1859
Many Northerners admire Brown; Southerners fear future uprisings

19. The Election of 1860 Democrats split over slavery
Lincoln wins with less than half of popular vote
gets no Southern electoral votes

20. Southern Succession South Carolina and 6 other states secede:
want complete independence from federal control
fear end to their way of life
want to preserve slave labor system
Feb Confederacy or Confederate States of America forms
Confederacy permits slavery, recognizes each state’s sovereignty
Former senator Jefferson Davis unanimously elected president

23. “A house divided”
With a partner, discuss what Lincoln is trying to say.
“’A house divided against itself cannot stand.’ I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the states, old as well as new, North as well as South.”