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Towards Civil War
Divided Country
Missouri Compromise
1820
Compromise of 1850
Kansas Nebraska Act
1854
Free vs Slave StatesKANSAS NEBRASKA ACT Introduced by Stephen
Douglas Method of resolving the
Kansas Nebraska territory issue
Repeal Missouri Compromise and Introduce popular sovereignty (For both Kansas & Nebraska)
Becomes law in 1854
STEPHEN DOUGLAS
The Race for KansasPOPULATE, SETTLE AND VOTE Pro-Slavery and
abolitionists race to settle Kansas
Settlers to vote on slavery (popular sovereignty)
Pro-slavery people from Missouri cross border to vote (fraud)
Pro slavery government established in Lecompton
RESULT OF ELECTION
Abolitionists furious over events
Establish government in Topeka (1855)
Conflict between the escalates
“Bloody Kansas” is termed
Violence Reaches the SenateCANING OF SUMNER Charles Sumner (Mass)
speaks on “The Crime Against Kansas”
Verbally condemns south, slavery and some southern senators
Congressman Brooks strikes Sumner in the head (repeatedly) on the chamber floor
Sumner suffered brain damage
BROOKS ATTACK ON SUMNER
Split in Political Parties
Slavery/ Immigration
Democrats
Know Nothing
Free SoilWhigs
Republican
Events escalating the conflict
Dred Scott Decision• 1857
Lincoln-Douglas Debates• 1858
Harpers Ferry• 1859
Lincoln Election• 1860
Secession
South Carolina: December 20, 1860 Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, LA,
Texas 1861 Confederate States of America Jefferson Davis; Mississippi
War Begins
North Strength & Strategies STRENGTH
People/Population
Production/Factories
Railway System
STRATEGY
Blockade
Ports
Take Mississippi
Must Conquer to Wing
Take Richmond
South Strength & StrategySTRENGTH
Cotton
Generals/ War Trained
Motivated Soldiers
STRATEGY
Stay in the field Don’t let them take
the South Defensive
Major Early Battles (July 1861)BULL RUN Also called Battle of
Manassas (by South) First Battle of the war Union crosses Bull Run to
begin march toward Richmond
Confederate Army stands firm/ Stonewall Jackson
Confederate Win Some thought war was
over and went home
Images from Bull Run
Bull Run (First Civilian Casualty) Judith Carter
Henry 85 years old Refused to leave
her house
Mississippi Campaign Ulysses S. Grant
Feb. 1862 Fort Henry
(Tennessee River) Fort Donelson
( Cumberland River)
Shiloh/25000 killed, wounded, captured
Farragut Seizes New Orleans
(April 1862)
Damn the torpedoes, Full speed ahead
Antietam (Sharpsburg)
September 17, 1862
Stroke of Luck Found Lee’s orders
wrapped around cigars
Armies were divided 26,000 casualties McClellan does not
pursue the Confederate Army into Virginia
Politics of War
Lincoln