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The Road to War

The Road to War. United States Civil War. SECTIONALISM. Caused by economical differences between the two regions. NORTH Industrial Paid labor for workers. SOUTH Agricultural Free labor (slaves) did the work. Composition of U.S. Before 1860. Free Slave Territories.

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The Road to War

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  1. The Road to War United States Civil War

  2. SECTIONALISM Caused by economical differences between the two regions NORTH • Industrial • Paid labor for workers SOUTH • Agricultural • Free labor (slaves) did the work

  3. Composition of U.S. Before 1860 Free Slave Territories

  4. Right to be free • Greatest problem of slavery – violation of every human being's unalienable right to be free

  5. Compromise of 1820

  6. The Issue of States’ Rights • Southerners – all lands acquired from Mexico open to slave holders • Northerners – demanded all new regions be closed to slavery

  7. Then…in California • January 1848 – gold discovered • Congress had to make a decision quickly WHY ??

  8. Because… California wanted to join Union as free state – BUT – was split in half by Missouri Compromise Line (oops!!!!) So…***Henry Clay – you’re up!!!

  9. Compromise of 1850

  10. CALMING or NOT ??? • For 3 years, the compromise settled most differences but… • The new Fugitive Slave Law deeply offended Northerners

  11. Northerners continued to help fugitives escape, and made the Underground Railroad more efficient and more daring than it had been before.

  12. Kansas-Nebraska Problem! • Slave-holders in Missouri objected to Kansas becoming a free territory because they would have 3 free-soil neighbors (Illinois, Iowa and Kansas) • They feared their state would be forced to become a free state as well

  13. Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854

  14. Bleeding Kansas Both southern slave holders and antislavery families move in – armed conflict results in lots of blood shed. Kansas became known as “Bleeding Kansas.”

  15. Slave or Freed Man ?? • Dred Scott • Missouri slave • Master moved to Illinois and the Wisconsin Territory (where slavery banned) • Master returned to Missouri • Scott sued for freedom

  16. Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)

  17. Effects of Dred Scott Decision • angered North • Southern --great victory--it gave “judicial voice” to their justification of slavery

  18. Lincoln-Douglas Debates 1858 ***Debates between Illinois congressional candidates: Stephen A. Douglas vs. Lincoln (new Republican Party) ***Douglas won the election ***Lincoln gained national attention for his views on slavery

  19. Abraham Lincoln regarded slavery as “a Necessary EVIL” • Speech in Peoria, Illinois, in 1858—declared:-- “all national legislation should be framed on the principle that slavery was to be restricted. It should NOT spread into the new western territories!”

  20. Tensions Grow!!!! ***Southerners are feeling threatened !! Then… John Brown Was he Saint or Satan?

  21. John Brown’s Raid(1860)

  22. 1860 Presidential Election • Republican – Abraham Lincoln • Northern Democrat – Stephen A. Douglas • Southern Democrat – John Breckenridge • Constitutional Union Democrat – John Bell

  23. Presidential Election of 1860

  24. Why Secession? The election of Abe Lincoln as the 1st Republican President increased the South’s fear that Lincoln would abolish slavery in South

  25. South Carolina secedes • Lincoln’s election led to South Carolina’s decision was to be the 1st southern state to secede from the Union • Lincoln’s election caused the start of the CIVIL WAR

  26. Secession of South Carolina

  27. Southern justification for slavery… States’ Rights The belief that since the constitution reserved certain powers for the states which superseded federal powers, a state could secede from the Union if they were not allowed to nullify a federal law!

  28. Secession: Legally Void • Abraham Lincoln sworn in. • In his inaugural address, he refused to recognize the secession, considering it "legally void."

  29. Jefferson Davis says… “As a necessity, not a choice, we have resorted to the remedy of separation, and henceforth our energies must be directed to the conduct of our own affairs…If this be denied to us…we will be forced to appeal to arms!

  30. Fort Sumter, South Carolina 1st shots of Civil War fired here

  31. WAR! • The battle began in April of 1861 when the Confederate Army took over Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina.  

  32. Fort Sumter, South Carolina

  33. Fort Sumter

  34. After

  35. TODAY

  36. Civil War, Death and Destruction A war had begun in which more Americans would die than in any other conflict before or since.

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