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Conflict and Compromise

Conflict and Compromise. What was the conflict?. It was not slavery alone….. This was about politics With the Louisiana Purchase came the decision about creating new slave states Southerners were against Federal Government involvement in tariffs. They also believed in only expressed rights.

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Conflict and Compromise

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  1. Conflict and Compromise

  2. What was the conflict? • It was not slavery alone….. • This was about politics • With the Louisiana Purchase came the decision about creating new slave states • Southerners were against Federal Government involvement in tariffs. • They also believed in only expressed rights.

  3. Roots of Conflict • Farming- • North switched from tobacco to grain • Eili Whitney invented the cotton gin • North moved toward manufacturing and immigrant labor • North wanted free labor in new states and wanted to pass laws • South wanted states rights protected and slavery protected as well.

  4. What was the plan? • Missouri Compromise • Tell me why the South did not agree?

  5. Compromise of 1850 • Admitted California as a Free State • New governments would let the people decide the issue • D.C. must prohibit slave trade • U.S. Marshals must help recapture fugitive slaves • How does this end?

  6. Kansas-Nebraska Act • Kansas and Nebraska were added and allowed to decide on the slavery issue • This led to Bleeding Kansas, John Brown, and Dred Scott.

  7. Who said this?

  8. War….Civil War • April 12, 1861 confederates fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina. • Lincoln called for volunteers and 3 mores states joined the Confederacy

  9. Major Battles • Bull Run, Shiloh and Antietam, and finally Gettysburg. • Over 50 thousand died at Gettysburg alone. • Some statistics say that over 30% still had the bullet in their guns. • Listen to the address……

  10. Social and Economic Battles • Emancipation- • South had seceded so what did this mean? • 1862 Lincoln signed first draft of Emancipation Proclamation • Read quote on page 177

  11. New Roles • First example of women stepping up like they would for wars yet to come. • Nurses • Farms • Factories • Even government positions

  12. Road to Surrender • Scorched Earth Policy • All is fair in love and war • Grant ordered generals to burn everything. • Confederate troops and civilians began to starve. • 1 in 3 Confederate soldiers died in the war. • 360,000 Union and 260,000 Confederate soldiers died.

  13. Lincoln • Main goal was always to preserve the union • He promised to heal wounds and deal with the South with compassion • He died 5 days after the South Surrendered. • Trace the war at the back of the room

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