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CIVIL WAR NOTES. OBJECTIVES 1 & 2. CIVIL WAR Part. A NATION DIVIDED. Civil War Chart.
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CIVIL WAR NOTES OBJECTIVES 1 & 2
CIVIL WAR Part A NATION DIVIDED
Objective #1- North v. South1. Compare & Contrast the Northern & Southern state lifestyles.North: How was industry affecting the North? How did farms work in the North? Where we people coming from to fill all the jobs? (U.S. Ch. 12 pgs. 381-407, Ch. 14 pgs. 438-441 & A.J. Ch. 13 pgs. 385-395)South: What was the main way of making money in the South? Describe the plantation system. What crop and invention increased the use of slavery? (U.S. Ch. 13 pgs. 411-431 & A.J. Ch. 13 pgs. 396-406 ) A. The North 1. Industry Growing a. Factories growing b. Shipping Businesses 1. Trade to and from Factories 2. Trains / Inventions / Growth c. Cities (Centers of Trade and Immigration) 1. Grow with trade from new farms & people 2. Free Workers & Farmers (NW Territory)
Objective #1- North v. South 2. The People A. Farmers in New Territories 1. Immigrants and poor whites from South 2. Small family farms (No Slaves) B. Immigrants in the Cities 1. Looking for Work in factories C. Self Made People 1. Use free education 2. Can start from nothing and become wealthy Ex.- Lincoln
Objective #1- North v. South B. The South 1. Cash Crop System a. Large Plantations b. Cotton New King!!! -Takes a ton of labor 2. Planters are In Charge a. Run Politics / Economy b. Keep poor whites poor (No Jobs) -No Jobs (Slaves do work) -No free education in South
Objective #1- North v. South - What effect would this type of system have on population????????-Who do you think would be the only people to receive an education?
Objective #1- North v. South 3. SLAVERY a. Used in South since Jamestown (1803) b. Slavery slowing, but Cotton Becomes King -Eli Whitney, Cotton Gin c. SLAVERY GROWS with COTTON KINGDOM d. Slaves are treated horrible -Beatings -Cut of limbs -Raping Women -Bought & Sold
Objective #2- Abolition Movement A. Abolitionism- Fight to end Slavery 1. Strong in the North (Religious Based) a. 1st abolition society found by Ben Franklin b. Book Helps: Uncle Tom’s Cabin -Many in North read of horrible treatment c. Leaders: Frederick Douglas, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, William Lloyd Garrison 2. Underground Railroad: **System of trails and safe houses designed to help slaves escape to the North and Canada. a. ‘Conductor’- Harriet Tubman
Objective #2- Abolition Movement 3. Reaction in the South a. Congress to passes “Fugitive Slave Act” **Any runaway slave may be captured and returned south from anywhere in the U.S -Kidnappings -No Safe Place b. Claim that the North/Abolitionist are trying to ruin their way of life
Objective #2- Balancing Power (New States) B. Balancing New States 1. Slave v. Free States a. Free states have more people -Power in House of Rep. b. Slave states need to keep equal in Senate (2per state) C. Compromises (Just Band Aids) 1. Missouri Compromise (1820) a. Missouri added as slave state / Maine as free b. Northern part of Louisiana will be Free / Southern Slave 2.Compromise of 1850 a. California added as free state b. Stronger Fugitive Slave Law
Objective #2- Balancing Power (New States) 3. Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) a. People vote on slavery or not b. ‘Bleeding’ Kansas (Mini-Civil War) -Southerners fight ‘Free’ settlers c. More free people move in, but president accepts ‘Slave’ constitution
Objective #3- Election of 1860 • New Political Party 1. Republicans a. ALL Northerners b. Most do not want slavery to SPREAD 2. Old Parties Split a. Democrats split- North / South b. Whigs disappear (Most become Repub.) B. Race for President 1. Lincoln Chosen by Republicans a. Promises NOT to OUTLAW Slavery where it already is b. Many think he is ‘uneducated’ westerner (Illinois) 2. Democrats- Douglas (North) / Breckenridge (South) 3. BATTLE for NORTH (Many more People) a. Lincoln not even on Southern state ballots!!!!!!
Objective #3- Election of 1860 • Lincoln Wins Presidency!!! 1. South Super Duper Mad a. Say he wants to OUTLAW Slavery!! Not- True 2. Lincoln hopes to keep country together
Objective #3- Election of 1860 Why do you think the Compromises failed?
Objective #3- Election of 1860 D. SECESSION! – Dec. 20 1860 1. States’ Rights- States can leave the Union because they had joined voluntarily a. South Carolina 1st and the rest of South follows 2. Let them go? Or Make them stay? a. Lincoln makes clear they can not leave!! 3. Confederate States of America a. Gov’t formed by the South b. Southern Congressmen / Army Officers Leave for South
Objective #3- Election of 1860 E. South Takes Federal Property 1. Who do they belong to???? a. Forts, Ports, Army Supplies, Buildings 2. Fort Sumter, S.C. (SPARK!!) a. Fort needs supplies b. Lincoln wants to Re-supply Fort 3. Confederate Troopsfire on the fort before supplies can arrive
What do the Borders states have that the rest of the North does not?