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The Union in Peril

The Union in Peril. Sectionalism and the Civil War Ms. Garratt. North South Differences. North. South. Industrial River Power Harsh winters Wage labor. Agrarian (cotton, tobacco) Slave labor Mild weather all year. Slavery in the Territories. California - Compromise of 1850

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The Union in Peril

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  1. The Union in Peril Sectionalism and the Civil War Ms. Garratt

  2. North South Differences North South • Industrial • River Power • Harsh winters • Wage labor • Agrarian (cotton, tobacco) • Slave labor • Mild weather all year

  3. Slavery in the Territories • California - • Compromise of 1850 • CA as free state • Fugitive Slave Law • DC • Popular Sovereignty (letting the people decide whether or not to allow slavery) • in NM & UT territories • Secession

  4. Underground Railroad & Uncle Tom’s Cabin • Fugitive Slave Law • Slaves denied trials • Vigilance committees • Harriet Tubman – conductor

  5. Harriet Beecher Stowe

  6. Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854

  7. Bleeding Kansas • First test of popular sovereignty in Kansas. • Supporters and opponents of slavery moved in to populate KS • Election took place but 1000s of border ruffians illegally voted • Lecompton gov set up. • Anti-slavery forces set up rival gov • Violence breaks out and KS earns the title of bleeding KS

  8. Violence in the Senate

  9. Free Soilers

  10. Republican Party • Opponents of the KS-NE Act form the Republican Party. • Opposed to slavery in the new territories. • Whigs, Free Soilers, Democrats & other parties joined. • Chief goal was to resurrect the Missouri Compromise • Election of 1856 John C. Fremont was their candidate. • Had Fremont won many believe that the South would have seceded then

  11. Dred Scott Decision 1857

  12. Lincoln-Douglas Debates

  13. Harpers Ferry & John Brown 1857

  14. John Brown • Wanted to organize slaves & lead a rebellion. • Attacked Harpers Ferry (a federal arsenal) • The slave uprising Brown hoped for never occurred. • Federal troops put down the uprising. • Brown was tried & excuted • In the North church bells rang, guns fired salutes. • They considered Brown a martyr • South became more paranoid • Some whites suspected of anti-slavery views were attacked by mobs.

  15. HarpersFerry 1857

  16. Election of Lincoln 1860 election Lincoln was a moderate Opposed extension of slavery into new territories but reassured South that he would not interfere with their slaves HE NEVER THREATENED TO END SLAVERY. South felt threatened by him His name didn’t even appear on the ballots of most southern states

  17. Southern Secession Question of “states rights” v federal control SC was first to secede followed by 10 other states Set up confederate gov in Montgomery Jefferson Davis - president

  18. North/South Resources & Strategies Chart on page 169

  19. Emancipation Proclamation

  20. Battles

  21. Confederacy Wears Down

  22. Politics of Reconstruction

  23. Johnson’ s Impeachment

  24. Scalawags, Carpetbaggers & Freedmen

  25. Collapse of Reconstruction

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