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