1. The Union in Peril Civil War
Chapter 4
The Union in Peril
Civil War

2. Slavery and New Territories
Slavery – Economic Issue (North vs. South)
Mexican American War and Louisiana Purchase
California – Compromise of 1850

3. Protest to Slavery Non-violent: Violent: Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
Uncle Tom’s Cabin –
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Violent:
“Bleeding Kansas”
Senator Charles Sumner

4. Leading to Southern Secession
Dred Scott Decision
Abraham Lincoln elected president in 1860
Southern Secession
South Carolina December
Confederacy is formed
Jefferson Davis – President

5. Emancipation Proclamation
January 1, 1863
Declaration that all slaves are to recognized as free
No immediate effect
Turns the war into a moral battle

6. Economic, Political, Social Effects
North strived, South suffered
Inflation
Political:
A nation divided
Social:
Women, contributions
African Americans fight

7. The Civil War Early Union Victories – Grant Battle of Gettysburg
Gettysburg Address
Confederates surrender at Vicksburg - Grant
Lincoln Reelected
Surrender at Appomattox
Grant and Lee meet

8. Effects of the War Over 600,000 Americans died
Strength of the Federal Government
Economic Gap increases
Thirteenth Amendment
Lincoln Assassinated
John Wilkes Booth
Andrew Johnson takes over

9. Reconstruction 1865-1877 Confederate states allowed back into Union
Fourteenth Amendment
Fifteenth Amendment
Grant wins the Election of 1868
A devastated South
Ku Klux Klan