1. Causes and Effects of the Civil War
Standard 8.10: Analyze the causes and effects of the Civil War.
Essential Question: Is change more effectively accomplished with peace or conflict?

2. Warm-up (page 127 of HIN) #2 5/26
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What are your thoughts and feelings when you see this flag? Why?

3. Homework #1: Reading Log (page 129 of HIN)
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Read pages Write a summary by including Northern and Southern economies, anti-slavery, racism, Wilmot Proviso, Free-Soil Party, and Compromise of 1850.

4. Helpful Vocabulary racism compromise tensions popular sovereignty
platform
secession

5. Homework #2: Reading Log (page 135 of HIN)
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Read pages Write a summary of 4-5 sentences by including Fugitive Slave Act, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Kansas- Nebraska Act, Bleeding Kansas, and John Brown.

6. Homework: Reading Log (page 135 of HIN)
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Read pages Write a summary of 4-5 sentences by including Republican Party, James Buchanan, Dred Scott v. Sandford, Abraham Lincoln, and Harper’s Ferry.

7. Homework: Reading Log (page 130 of HIN)
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Read pages Write a summary of 4-5 sentences by including platform, election of 1860, secede, Confederate States of America, and Jefferson Davis, and Critteren Plan.

8. Homework #2
Get handout on Causes of the Civil War project paper signed.

9. Section 7: Causes & Effects of the Civil War
Set up Section 7 on page of your HIN.

10. Causes of the Civil War Project
Discuss in class.

11. Causes of the Civil War Overview (page 132 in HIN)
Main Idea: disagreements between the North & South, esp. over slavery, led political conflict.

12. Wilmot Proviso

13. Free-Soil Party
Political party trying to stop the expansion of slavery
“Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Labor, and Free Men.”
Congress members made slavery a key issue in national politics

14. The Compromise of 1850
Should California become a free state or a slave state?
Congress was divided over the issue.
Trying to balance the power in the country. What did they decide? (Page 461)

15. Fugitive Slave Act 1850 a law was passed to capture runaway slaves
Slaves held w/o an arrest warrant, no right to a jury trial
Northerners were expected to capture slaves
Sometimes free African Americans were captured

16. Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
Author, Harriet Beecher Stowe, wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
About an older slave
It raised the issue of slavery
Really popular story.
Southerners were upset about this book, because it made slavery look bad.

17. The Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
Conflict btwn North & South over slavery
Senator Douglas drafted a bill to try organizing the Nebraska Territory: Nebraska & Kansas
Douglas had people vote whether or not slavery should be allowed.
If passed, the Missouri Compromise would end, then slavery would be allowed!
See page 464 to find out what happened!

18. “Bleeding Kansas”
Conflict broke out between proslavery and antislavery settlers.
Proslavery settlers illegally gained many proslavery representatives.
Anti-slavery settlers boycotted the government and made their own.
Proslavery mob attacked house of the anti-slavery government (Sack of Lawrence)
Extreme abolitionist, John Brown along with 7 other men, took revenge by murdering 5 proslavery neighbors.
What was the result of this? See page 465 to find out!

19. Caning of Sumner (1856)
May 1856, Senator Charles Sumner delivered a speech criticizing a S. Carolina senator & the proslavery attacks in Kansas.
Preston Brooks , a cousin of the S. Carolina senator, attacked Mr. Sumner with his cane.
Preston Brooks did this in defense of his cousin and slavery in the South.
Tensions were REALLY HIGH in the North and South!

20. Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
Dred Scott, a slave from Missouri, moves to a free state with his master.
After his master dies, Dred Scott tries to gain his freedom in court.
Read page 467 and 468 to find out what was decided.
What was the effect of this court decision?

21. “A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand”
Read the following quote. What do you think President Lincoln meant by this?
"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.
Abraham Lincoln, Springfield, Illinois, June 16, 1858

22. Attack on Harper’s Ferry (1859)
Abolitionist John Brown wanted to inspire slaves to fight for their freedom.
October 16, 1859, John Brown leads an attack on Harper’s Ferry.
What happened? Find out the answers on pages

23. Election of 1860
The Republican Party nominated Abraham Lincoln to run for President.
A major point for his platform, was to stop the expansion of slavery in the western territories.
Lincoln wins the election, due to the higher population in the North.
The South fear that their way of life is threatened.

24. Secession (1861)
After Lincoln’s election to the presidency, the Southern states secede from the Union.
The states that seceded from the Union form the Confederate States of America. Jefferson Davis becomes their president.
They claimed secession based on the violation of their states’ rights and the threat of having slavery abolished.

25. Civil War Begins (1861)
Northerners considered secession unconstitutional
Lincoln aims to preserve the Union.
Federal government is sovereign over the states, so secession should not have occurred.
The South attack Ft. Sumter, which was federal property.
The Civil War begins.

26. The Union Wins the War
Lincoln thought the war would last a few months, but ended up lasting 4 long years.
Many casualties experienced on both sides
After many lost battles for the North, the Union finally prevails due to William Tecumseh Sherman’s March to the South-- destroying everything that supports the South.
General Lee surrenders on April 9,
Reconstruction begins