1. March 3, 2015
Read the 2 speeches on your desk. After you have read them answer the questions below and be ready to discuss .
What is your interpretation of the first quote and the idea of slavery?
What is your interpretation of the second quote and the idea of slavery?
Do they agree on the issue of the social and political status of “Negroes”? Explain.

2. What Caused the Conflict?

3. Slavery Cotton Gin increased need for slaves
South was dependent on slave labor

4. Abolitionism South feared the end of slavery
Abolitionists believed that slavery was immoral
Encouraged revolts and use of violence

5. State’s Rights
New territories entering as states upset the balance of free and slave
Idea of popular sovereignty and the Kansas Nebraska territories

6. Sectionalism North was a manufacturing region
South was an agricultural region and depended on Cotton

7. Election of Lincoln
Lincoln was a republican and not popular in the South
SC seceded from the Union after his election

8. Explain how the following contributed to starting the Civil War
Slavery
Abolition
State’s rights
Sectionalism
Election of Lincoln