Civil war

• Causes of Sectionalism


  -Loyalty to the region instead of the country

  -social and Cultural differences

  -Economic Differences

  -The debate over federal versus state rights
• Causes of Civil War

  Economic and social differences between the North and the South, having states vs. federal rights, slaves vs. non-slave proponents, the Growth of abolitionist movement and the election of President Abraham Lincoln.
• Sectionalism


  Loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole
• Missouri Compromise


  -Missouri entered as a slave state

  -Maine entered as a free state

  -The 36 30 line is drawn. This line decides in which territories slavery should be allowed or not

  -The compromise was in tact for 30 years until more land was added to the territories.
• Compromise of 1850


  Agreement designed to ease tensions caused by the expansion of slavery into western territories
• Secession


  the withdrawl of a state from a federal union
• Why did The states secede

  Southern states seceded from the union in order to protect their states' rights, the institution of slavery, and disagreements over tax.
• What was the purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation

  -Loyalty of border states

  -Abolish slavery in the states that are rebelling

  -Allow black troops to join the military
• Black Soldiers contribution to the civil war

  Black soldiers served in artillery and infantry and performed all noncombat support functions that sustain an army, as well. Black carpenters, chaplains, cooks, guards, laborers, nurses, scouts, spies, steamboat pilots, surgeons, and teamsters also contributed to the war cause.
• Gettysburg Address


  (1863) a speech given by Abraham Lincoln after the Battle of Gettysburg, in which he praised the bravery of Union soldiers and renewed his commitment to winning the Civil War; supported the ideals of self-government and human rights
• When did the Confederacy surrender?

  April 9, 1865
• Total War


  Targeting military and civilian resources to destroy and opponents will to fight.
• Why did the Confederacy Surrender?

  They were outnumbered
• Anaconda plan steps


  -1.) blockade Southern ports and cut off trade -2.) divide South by controlling Mississippi River

  -3.) capturing Richmond, VA
• Habeas Corpus


  Constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment
• Southern war Strategy


  Defensive war, wear down the North, gain control of Washington DC
• Nat Turners Rebellion


  1831, Enslaved Rebellion in Virginia led by Nat

  Turner. The uprising would go on to kill

  55 people before it was suppressed.
• Fugitive Slave Law


  Compelled citizens to assist in

  capture of runaways, fine and

  jail for interfering or aiding an

  enslaved person's escape, and

  both free and enslaved captured

  and put into enslavement
• Election of Lincoln 1860


  Fearing what a Lincoln Presidency would

  do to their economy and dependence on

  enslaved labor, South Carolina issues a

  Declaration of Secession and formally

  withdrawals from the Union.
• Where did they end the war

  Appomatix Courthouse
• Mass. 54th Regiment


  Jan. - First all-black regiment for

  the Union was created in response

  to the Emancipation Proclamation.

  helped inspire the enlistment of

  180,000 black soldiers
• Which states seceded from the Union?

  South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee
• 11 causes of the civil war

  -Fugitive slave act

  -Election of 1860

  -Uncle Toms Cabin

  -Kansas Nebraska act

  -Bleeding Kansas

  -Charles Sumners Beating

  -Dred Scott decision

  -John Browns Raid

  -Election of Lincoln

  -South Carolina Secedes
• Uncle Toms Cabin


  A novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe

  describes the injustices and horrors

  of chattel slavery; it is instrumental

  in awakening Northerners to the

  suffering and dehumanization

  happening in the South.
• Kansas-Nebraska Act


  1854 - Created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty.
• Bleeding Kansas


  Bleeding Kansas describes the period

  of repeated outbreaks of violent

  guerrilla warfare between pro-

  slavery and anti-slavery forces

  following the creation of the new

  territory of Kansas in 1854.
• Maine


  Admitted to the Union as a free state as part of the Missouri Compromise
• 36 30 line


  A line drawn to decide in which territories slavery should be allowed or not as part of the Missouri Compromise
• Kansas-Nebraska Act


  A law passed in 1854 that repealed the Missouri Compromise and allowed the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery
• Missouri


  Allowed to enter the Union as a slave state as part of the Missouri Compromise
• Missouri Compromise


  A legislative agreement reached in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress
• President Jefferson purchases the Louisiana Territory from France. The United States doubled in size, adding territory west of the Mississippi River


  1831
• Compromise to balance congressional power between free and slave states. At 36° 30' latitude line, states below will be slave and states above will be free, except Missouri, admitted as a slave state, and Maine as a free state

  1803
• MISSOURI COMPROMISE


  1820
• The US expands its border, helping fulfill the Manifest Destiny concept. The new territory makes up the modern-day Southwest and Texas


  1846-1848
• Compelled citizens to assist in capture of runaways, fine and jail for interfering or aiding an enslaved person's escape, and both free and enslaved captured and put into enslavement

  1857
• A collection of five different laws targeting expansion and slavery: CA enters as a Free State, Texas/NM boundaries defined, Utah and NM Territories decide slavery by popular sovereignty, the slave trade ended in D.C., & strict Fugitive Slave Law

  1850
• A novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe describes the injustices and horrors of chattel slavery; it is instrumental in awakening Northerners to the suffering and dehumanization happening in the South


  1852
• The act abolished the Missouri Compromise by opening the two new territories that were created, Kansas and Nebraska, to the policy of popular sovereignty


  1854
• Senator Sumner from Massachusetts gave an anti-slavery speech about "The Crime Against Kansas" and was caned on the Senate floor from a Southern represenative


  1856