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Immediate Causes of the Civil War

Immediate Causes of the Civil War. Do Now: The Path to War. Civil War. Use the visual summary on pg. 372 to create a flow chart in your notes identifying the 3 immediate causes of the American Civil War. The Path to War. The Election of 1860 (pg. 329 – 330). Who were the candidates?

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Immediate Causes of the Civil War

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  1. Immediate Causes of the Civil War

  2. Do Now: The Path to War Civil War Use the visual summary on pg. 372 to create a flow chart in your notes identifying the 3 immediate causes of the American Civil War.

  3. The Path to War

  4. The Election of 1860 (pg. 329 – 330) • Who were the candidates? • What was each party’s position on slavery? • Southern Democrat – • Northern Democrat – • Republican – • Constitutional Union –

  5. The Election of 1860 (pg. 329 – 330)

  6. The Election of 1860 (pg. 329 – 330) • What issue split the Democrats? How were they split? • How many popular votes did the 2 Democrats receive? • Electoral votes? The party was split over the issue of slavery in the territories. NorthernDemocrats wanted slavery in the territories to be decided by popular sovereignty (residents vote) SouthernDemocrats wanted to expand slavery into the territories, whether residents wanted it or not. 2,231,069 84

  7. The Economics of Slavery • Why was it so important to slave owners that slavery expand into the territories? • Growing cotton brought huge profits, but it also caused problems. Cotton used up the nutrients in the soil. When the soil was no longer productive, cotton growers abandoned their plantations and moved westward. In the 1810s through the 1830s, they moved away from the coastal states and built plantations in Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi. By the 1840s and 1850s, these lands, too, were becoming unproductive. Cotton growers then moved to Arkansas and Texas. For this reason, some critics argued that slavery would die out on its own. They said that—along with being unjust—the plantation system didn’t make economic sense.

  8. The Election of 1860 (pg. 329 – 330) • Which candidate received the 2nd highest number of popular votes? • How many popular votes? • How many electoral votes? • How many states? Which ones? • Who won the election? • With how many popular votes? • Electoral votes? Stephen Douglas 1,382,713 12 Missouri & part of New Jersey 2 Abraham Lincoln 1,865,593 180

  9. The Election of 1860 (pg. 330) • How is it possible that Lincoln could win the election when he “did not even appear on the ballot in most of the slave states?” • Would Lincoln still have won if the Democratic Party was not split in two? Why or why not?

  10. Analyzing Political Cartoons

  11. The Path to War

  12. What is the relationship between the percentage of enslaved people and secession? • Slavery and Secession Interactive Map Also see Southern Secession, pages 330 - 331

  13. The Confederate States of America Formed February 4, 1861

  14. The Path to War

  15. Fort Sumter • Fort Sumter was a US fort located in South Carolina. • Confederate soldiers demanded the Union surrender the fort or face attack. • In response, Lincoln sent supplies to the Fort knowing that it would force South Carolina to fire the first shots. Fort Sumter

  16. Do Now, 3/26 • Think about all of thecompromises and events you summarized or discussed over the last few blocks (i.e. the Missouri Compromise, Fugitive Slave Act, Kansas-Nebraska Act, John Brown’s Raid, Secession, Attack on Fort Sumter, etc.). Do you think the Civil War could have been avoided? • If so, how? • If not, why not?

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