The Road to War
• Which section of the country had an
industrial economy?
Industrial Economy
• Which section had an agricultural economy…mostly based on
_____________?
Agricultural Economy
• Tax on ____________goods, or manufactured
goods
• Strongly opposed by the
__________ -- why?
Tariff
• One who wants to end ___________
Abolitionist
• Drew an east-west line through the Louisiana Purchase
• Slavery allowed below the line
• Slavery prohibited above the line, except in Missouri
Missouri Compromise
• California would be admitted as a free state
• Southern territories acquired from Mexico would decide on
their own
• “When the residents of a territory vote to decide on the issue of
slavery for themselves” = popular sovereignty
Compromise of 1850
• Also a part of the Compromise
of 1850
• Citizens of the United States are
responsible for catching and
turning in runaway slaves
Fugitive Slave Law
• Repealed the Missouri
Compromise line
• Gave Kansas and Nebraska the
right of popular sovereignty
• Led to Bleeding Kansas =
fighting over slavery
• Leads to a new political party=
the Republican Party
Kansas Nebraska Act
• Led the Abolitionist movement
• Published the LiberatorAbolitionist newsletter
• Viewed the institution of slavery
as a violation of Christian
principles and argued for its
abolition
William Lloyd Garrison
• Wife of New England clergyman
• Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriett Beecher Stowe
• Best-selling novel about the
horrors of slavery
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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Increased in the 1800s
Nat Turner-Newport News
Gabriel Prosser- Richmond plot
Fed white Southerner’s fears about slave rebellions and led to
harsh laws in the South against fugitive slaves
• Southerners who favored abolition were intimidated into silence
Slave Revolts
• A slave who sues for his
freedom!
• Supreme Court rules that
slaves are not citizens…
• …and that Congress can
not outlaw slavery in any
territory.
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
• “A house divided against
itself cannot stand.”
• Lincoln is elected with NO
support from the South
• Believes the Union should
stay intact
• South Carolina secedes
Secede – to withdraw from , to leave the Union (noun = secession)
Election of Lincoln (1860)
• -Northern Abolitionists
v. Southern defenders
of slavery
• -Sectional debate over
slavery, extension of
slavery in the
territories, and the
nature of the Union
(state’s rights)
Causes of the Civil War Summary
• -Failed compromises
over slavery in the
territories
• -U.S. Supreme Court
decision in the Dred
Scott Case
• -Publication of Uncle
Tom’s Cabin by Harriet
Beecher Stowe
• -Ineffective presidential
leadership in the 1850s
Causes of the War Summary