•Adding Fuel to the Fire
•Causes of the Civil War
•Part I
•Your name
•Your hour
Causes of the
Civil War Part
2
Sectionalism
*KansasNebraska Act
*Missouri
Compromise
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Popular
Sovereignty
• Causes of the Civil War
• Part II
• Your Name
• Your Hour
Causes of the
Civil War
Part 1
Compromise
of 1850
Uncle Tom’s
Cabin
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Secession
1. SECTIONALISM
• An exaggerated
loyalty to a
particular region or
country.
2. Missouri Compromise
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Written by Henry Clay
Kept balance equal in the Senate
1820
Missouri would be a slave state
Maine would be a free state
Any land north of the 36`30˚N line of
latitude would be free, that was
purchased in the Louisiana Purchase.
9. Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Proposed by Stephen Douglass
May 1854
1. Kansas would become a territory.
2. Nebraska would become a territory.
3. They would have popular
sovereignty.
• Overthrew part of the Missouri
Compromise.
8. Popular Sovereignty
• Allows the people to
decide on slavery
(or the current
issue)
5. Compromise of 1850
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Henry Clay – 5 part plan
1850
1. California would be free state
2. New Mexico Territory no restrictions
on slavery (popular sovereignty)
• 3. New Mexico/Texas border dispute
settled in favor of New Mexico
• 4. No slave trade, but slavery would be
allowed in District of Columbia.
• 5. Stronger fugitive slave laws
7. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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Father was a minister
Harriet Beecher Stowe Wrote the book
Husband was a religion professor
abolitionist
book sold over 300,000 copies
Told of horrors, brutalities of slavery
17. Secession
• To withdrawal from the union.
6. Fugitive Slave Act
• 1850
• Required all citizens to help catch
runaways or be fined up to $1,000 or
imprisoned.
• Angered people in the North
10. Bleeding Kansas
• Pro/Anti slavery supporters fought over
slavery issues
• Lawrence was the antislavery capital
(two newspapers), burned town by prosupporters.
• Border ruffians (Missourians would
come vote unfairly)
• Potawattomie Massacre – John Brown
(Abolitionists- God made him do it!)
11. Civil War
• A conflict between citizens of the
same country.
12. Formation of the Republican Party
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1854
Wisconsin
Abraham Lincoln
Antislavery Whigs,
Democrats, Freesoilers wanted to
overthrow slave
power.
13. Dred Scott Decision
1. Enslaved African American bought by
Missouri (slave) Army Doctor.
2. 1830 Dr. moves to Illinois (free) Wisconsin
(free) – HAS FREE PAPERS
3. Dr. dies – family moves back to Missouri
(slave) 1846
4. Dred sues for freedom he has had for 16
years.
5. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney
said slaves are property and they have NO
rights.
3. Wilmot Proviso
• Said slavery should be prohibited in any
lands acquired from Mexico
– New Mexico
– Arizona
– Texas
– Colorado
• This did NOT pass!
14. Lincoln/Douglas Debates
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Senate elections
Met 7 times
Douglas predicts the Civil War
Douglas supports Popular Sovereignty
Douglas – Democrat
Lincoln – Republican
Lincoln says “slavery is morally wrong”
stop the spread of slavery.
15. John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry,
Virginia
• October 16, 1859
• Led 18 black/whites to federal arsenal
• Wanted to spark upraising with
enslaved people
• Plan failed (no back up plan)
• Captured by Robert E. Lee
• Tried, found guilty, hanged
16. Election of 1860
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Stephen A. Douglas – Democrat
John Breckinridge – South Democrat
Abraham Lincoln – Republican
John Bell – Constitution Party
• Battle over Slavery
• Lincoln WON
18. December 20, 1860
• South Carolina was the first to secede
from the Union.
19. February 1, 1861
• Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama,
Florida, Georgia joined South Carolina
and left the Union.
20. Confederate States of America
• Jefferson Davis chosen as President
• Name given to Southern States who
had seceded from the Union.
21. States’ Rights
• Southern states thought they should
have more power than the
Constitutions.
4. Free-Soil Party
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New political party
1848
Martin Van Buren Candidate
Endorsed (supported) Wilmot Proviso
Free soil, free speech, free labor, free
men
• Against slavery
March 4, 1861
• Buchanan left office
• Lincoln sworn in – said Southern states
had NO right to secede. Vowed to hold
federal property in South and enforce
laws of United States.
23. April 12, 1861
• Confederates fired on Fort Sumter,
while they waited on supplies from the
North
• Confederates start the Civil War
• Lincoln orders 75,000 troops to the
South.