WHAT CAUSED THE CIVIL WAR?

1. WHAT CAUSED THE CIVIL WAR?

2. N O SLAVERY ORTH Sectionalism - loyalty to your part of the country 1 A GUN S LAVERY OUTH

3. The Cotton Gin – Much faster than doing it by hand. Makes cotton more profitable. The Cotton Gin – A device used to separate cotton from its seeds 2 A SHOE

4. more money encourages Plantation owners to buy more land More cotton makes plantation owners more money When they buy more land the plantation owners need more slaves to work the land more slaves working more land produces more cotton

5. 3 A TREE American Expansion1800 - 1853 DO NOW: Answer the following question: Why do you think Westward expansion would complicate the issue of slavery?

6. 3 A TREE Westward Expansion America expands westward and adds new states. Problem: Will the new states be “Slave States” or “Free States” ?(No Slavery)

7. 3 A TREE FREE Westward Expansion If more states are admitted as “Free” then the anti-slavery North will have a majority in Congress . and control the future of America N

8. 3 A TREE SLAVE Westward Expansion But, If more states are admitted as “Slave” States then the pro-slavery South will have a majority in Congress . S

9. 3 A TREE The side with the most states has the most representation in Congress and can control the future of slavery in America

10. 4 A DOOR My Door !

11. 4 A DOOR My Door !

12. Compromise Fails – Attempts to decide how to deal with slavery fail to solve the issue. 4 A DOOR the Missouri Compromise of 1820, allowed the free and slave states to remain balanced with the admissions of Missouri and Maine as slave and free states. My Door !

13. Compromise Fails – Attempts to decide how to deal with slavery fail to solve the issue. 4 A DOOR the Missouri Compromise of 1820, PROBLEM: failure to continue the admission of states in pairs of free and slave led to an imbalance My Door !

14. Compromise Fails – Attempts to decide how to deal with slavery fail to solve the issue. 4 A DOOR the Missouri Compromise of 1820, Also limits slavery in the Western Territories North of the line of Missouri’s Southern border My Door ! No Slavery Slavery OK

15. Compromise Fails – Attempts to decide how to deal with slavery fail to solve the issue. 4 A DOOR The Compromise of 1850, California is admitted as a Free state even though half of it falls below the Missouri Compromise line. My Door !

16. Compromise Fails – Attempts to decide how to deal with slavery fail to solve the issue. 4 A DOOR The Compromise of 1850, Strengthens the Fugitive Slave Act which angers the North and preserves slavery in Washington DC. My Door !

17. Compromise Fails – Attempts to decide how to deal with slavery fail to solve the issue. 4 A DOOR The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 allows white male settlers in those territories to vote and decide if they to want to allow slavery.(popular sovereignty ) My Door !

18. 5 A HIVE The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 allows popular sovereignty - settlers in those territories are to decide by voting whether or not they would allow slavery.

19. 5 A HIVE PROBLEM ! Settlers swarm across the border into Kansas. From the North come and from the South people called“Border Ruffians” who want Kansas to be a slave state. abolitionists N S

20. 5 A HIVE BLEEDING KANSAS ! The violence that breaks out between the two groups is so much that the Territory becomes known as ____________________ _______________________ .

21. 5 A HIVE One man drawn to the violent conflict in Kansas in a fanatical abolitionist named John Brown____________________ _______________________ .

22. 6 SOME STICKS The Rise of the Abolitionist Movement – A growing feeling in the North that slavery is evil and should be abolished. Uncle Tom’s Cabin Uncle Tom’s Cabin

23. An anti-slavery novel by abolitionist author Harriet Beecher Stowe The novel depicts the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love can overcome something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human beings. This was the best-selling novel of the 19th century and is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s. Uncle Tom’s Cabin

24. 6 SOME STICKS The Rise of the Abolitionist Movement – A growing feeling in the North that slavery is evil and should be abolished. Uncle Tom’s Cabin Dredd Scott

25. 6 SOME STICKS The Rise of the Abolitionist Movement – A growing feeling in the North that slavery is evil and should be abolished. Uncle Tom’s Cabin Dredd Scott The Underground Railroad Uncle Tom’s Cabin

26. 6 SOME STICKS The Rise of the Abolitionist Movement – A growing feeling in the North that slavery is evil and should be abolished. The Underground Railroad Uncle Tom’s Cabin Dredd Scott Uncle Tom’s Cabin WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON

27. 6 SOME STICKS Dredd Scott WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON The Rise of the Abolitionist Movement – A growing feeling in the North that slavery is evil and should be abolished. Uncle Tom’s Cabin Uncle Tom’s Cabin The American Anti-Salvery Society The Underground Railroad

28. WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON 6 SOME STICKS Dredd Scott The Rise of the Abolitionist Movement – A growing feeling in the North that slavery is evil and should be abolished. Uncle Tom’s Cabin Uncle Tom’s Cabin The American Anti-Salvery Society The Underground Railroad

29. 7 HEAVEN States Rights – The opinion that the individual states should have more sovereign power than the Federal government.

30. 7 HEAVEN The South is worried that the North would interfere with their states rights and do away with slavery.

31. THE WINNER OF THE ELECTION OF 1860 8 A GATE The Election of 1800 and Secession – Abraham Lincoln from the anri-slavery Republican Party wins the election

32. THE WINNER OF THE ELECTION OF 1860 8 A GATE The Election of 1800 and Secession –the South begins to secede (leave) the Union.

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41. Secession!