Civil War and Reform: USA Slavery and Suffrage

1. Civil War and Reform in USA

2. Slavery • Slavery was a strong political issue in the USA. • Many political and religious groups want to abolish slavery; many wanted to keep it. • Led to the Missouri Compromise of 1820. • For every slave/free territory that became a state, an opposite territory had to become a state as well. • Kept equal balance between slave and free states.

4. Missouri Compromise was not enough for many. • Abolitionist movement grew stronger. • Wanted to abolish slavery. • Groups such as the American Anti-Slavery Society grew very powerful and got involved in politics.

7. In 1860, abolitionist Abraham Lincoln was elected President. • Did not plan to end slavery. • Southern slave states hated Lincoln. • Believed that he would take away their rights, including the right to own slaves. • Southern states began to secede from the Union. • (Suh-seed) Leave and form their own country. • 1861 – Civil War began.

8. Abraham Lincoln

10. United States of America (USA) vs. Confederate States of America (CSA). • USA – President Abraham Lincoln. • General Ulysses S. Grant. • CSA – President Jefferson Davis. • General Robert E. Lee. • North vs. South. • Blue vs. Grey. • Union vs. Confederacy. • Union was mostly industry, Confederacy was mostly agriculture. • Civil War literally tore apart this nation.

11. General Ulysses S. Grant

12. Jefferson Davis

13. General Robert E. Lee

19. 1863 – Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. • Freed the Southern slaves. • Lincoln wanted the slaves to rebel and fight against the Confederacy. • To the CSA, this was illegal.

20. Emancipation Proclamation First Draft

29. 1865 – Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House. • The Civil War was over. • Days after the war ended, Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Boothe in Ford’s Theater.

31. John Wilkes Boothe

32. The end of the Civil War led to the creation of three new constitutional amendments. • 13th Amendment – Slavery is outlawed. • 14th Amendment – All people born or made citizens have the same rights and have equal protection under the law. • 15th Amendment – No discrimination based on race, color, or previous status as a slave.

33. Reform • Women in the USA began to push for suffrage. • Voting rights. • Suffrage movement started by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. • Held the Seneca Falls Convention in Seneca Falls, NY. • Wrote a Bill of Rights of Women.

34. Lucretia Mott

35. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

36. Later suffragettes included Susan B. Anthony. • These women did not live to see women get the vote. • 19th Amendment – Gave women the right to vote. • Signed in 1920.

37. Susan B. Anthony