GALLERY WALK

Please have your abolitionist profile on your desk where it can easily be seen.

As you walk around the classroom please add 3 things you learned about the abolitionists in your journal.

JOURNAL

If you are involved in a serious argument in which something important is at stake, is it better to compromise or confront your opponent? Explain your reasoning.

CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR

THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE - 1820

Ohio, Indiana, Illinois – Free States

Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama – Slave States

11 states each in early 1800s

Missouri applied for statehood Slave state Disrupt the Balance of power Maine also applied for statehood

Free State

North was free and South was slave 36, 30 lines

Temporary fix

NORTH V. SOUTH Sectionalism

Strong attachment to regional interests

North

City Life

Job opportuniti

es

Canals & RR• Increased

transportation

SouthRural

Farming & Plantations

Little Industry

SLAVERY

Free-Soil position Accepted slavery where it already existed, but not to new

territories.

Radicals End to slavery everywhere

Underground RR Harriet Tubman

Moderates Slavery a necessary evil

Southern Radicals Integral part of their livelihood

SLAVERY

Territorial Expansion Acquisition of California

Wilmot Proviso Ban slavery in an new territoryPassed in the house, but not Senate Popular Sovereignty Voters in the new territories will decide the issue of

slavery

Did not fix problems in congress

COMPROMISE OF 1850

California would be a free stateDivide other acquired land into two new statesNew MexicoUtah

Popular Sovereignty

Ban slavery in Washington DCFugitive Slave LawReturn of escaped slaves to their owners

UNCLE TOM’S CABIN

Slave laws caused more tension between north and south

Describes the cruelty of slavery Further discord between north and southNorth Continued hostility towards the treatment of slaves

South Inaccurate and insult to their way of life

KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT

Great Plains now available for settlementNorth of Missouri – no mention of slaverySouthern Congressmen only agreed to sign if their demands were met Kansas and Nebraska would settle issue through popular

sovereignty

Northern claimed this violated previous laws Slavery would spread quickly throughout all of US Republican Party formed

BLEEDING KANSAS

By 1855 many farmers were moving to Kansas Seeking good farm land

Agitators/protesters Wanted to influence the vote on slavery

Both opposing groups moved into the state Pro-slavery groups burned buildings, looted and destroyed

printing presses

John Brown Met violence with violence Attacked the city of Pottawatomie Killing 5 men

THE DRED SCOTT DECISION

Will become one of the most controversial supreme court decision

Dred Scott v. Sandford Enslaved man filed suit against owner Once lived in a state where slavery was illegal = free

man Ruled 7-2 against Scott

Scott was not a citizen – all slaves were not citizens Living in a free state did not necessarily mean you were

free

Missouri compromise was unconstitutional

Slaves were property of their owners Congress could not deprive people of their property

“The general words . . . seem to embrace the whole human family . . . But it is too clear for dispute, that the enslaved African race were not intended to be included, and formed no part of the people who framed and adopted this declaration.”

DREAD SCOTT DECISION

 Southerners were thrilled.  They believed the Court had settled the slavery question

in their favor. 

Northerners were stunned. The Court's decision had invalidated the whole idea of "free soil" and opened all territories to slavery. 

“The moral assassination of a race and cannot be obeyed."

HARPERS FERRY

Some Abolitionists believed legal means would never work John Brown

Seized federal arsenal to arm slaves Wanted to lead a raid against Pro-Slavery

Federal troops stormed the arsenal and captured him and his men.  Brown was tried for treason, convicted, and executed.

Southerners saw Brown as a lunatic whose extreme views were representative of

the antislavery movement.

Northerners saw Brown as a hero and martyr to the cause of abolition.

ELECTION OF 1860

Southern Democrats Government should protect slavery

John C Breckinridge

Northern democrats Doctrine of popular sovereignty

Stephen Douglas

Constitutional Union Party John Bell Moderate slave holder

Republican party Abraham Lincoln

ELECTION OF 1860

No longer any national parties Two candidates in the south, two in the north

Lincolns name did not even appear on many ballots in the south

Abraham Lincoln was elected president

Not one single electoral vote from the south

THE SOUTH SECEDES

Why would the south be angered and outraged?

Their response was to withdrawal from the union

Secessionists Voluntarily join the US, they could just as easily leave it

South Carolina left the Union officially in December of 1860

Six more states followed

Created a new nation Confederate States of America

Jefferson Davis was elected president

SO WHAT CAUSED THE CIVIL WAR?

Brainstorm all of the causes that led to the start of the civil war

Create a pie chart that represents the causes of the civil war Should be in color Clearly labeled Percentage should equal 100

Provide a couple sentences explaining why your pie chart looks the way it does. Ex: why was Slavery x%?

This should be done individually based upon the knowledge you have gained thus far

DUE: THURSDAY 11/14