1. Union on the Edge of War

2. Conflict between North & South
We’ve covered a lot of situations during the 1800s in which the North and South argued or threatened each other over. What are some examples?

3. Dred Scott (1857)
Argued he was a free man because he’d lived with owner in free Northern territory for a time.

4. Dred Scott (1857)
Supreme Court: Not free; African Americans do not have rights of citizens; Congress cannot forbid slavery in territories.
Worst Supreme Court
Decision Ever

5. John Brown (1859)
Slave owners fear northerners are planning slave uprisings everywhere.

6. Abraham Lincoln Republican Considered slavery immoral
Did not call for abolition of slavery, but wanted to stop its expansion

7. Secession
Lincoln elected President in 1860

8. Secession
11 states left the union forming the “Confederate States of America”
President Jefferson Davis
“STATES RIGHTS!!!”

9. Constitutions: U.S.A. vs C.F.A.
USA: We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity….
CFA: We, the people of the Confederate States, each State acting in its sovereign and independent character, in order to form a permanent federal government, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity…