Outlining the Causes of the Civil War

Outlining the Causes of the Civil War • With a partner outline the first section of chapter 13 and answer the ‘Quick Review” question – This outline will not be collected, it will be part of your notes. – You have 45 minutes to complete this task. • Be prepared to have a discussion on this section at the end of class.

Characteristics of the Antebellum South 1. Primarily agrarian. 2. Economic power shifted from the “upper South” to the “lower South. ” 3. “Cotton Is King!” * 1860 - 5 mil. bales a yr. (57% of total US exports). 4. Very slow development of industrialization. 5. Rudimentary financial system. 6. Inadequate transportation system.

Southern Pro-Slavery Propaganda

Problems of Sectional Balance in 1850 * California statehood. * Southern “fire-eaters” threatening secession. * Underground RR & fugitive slave issues: • Personal liberty laws • Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842) http: //www. oyez. org/cases/1792 -1850/1842_0

Frederick Douglass 1845 - The Narrative of the Life Of Frederick Douglass 1847 - “The North Star” (1817 -1895)

Sojourner Truth (1787 -1883) or Isabella Baumfree 1850 - The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

Harriet Tubman (1820 -1913) • • • Helped over 300 slaves to freedom. $40, 000 bounty on her head. Served as a Union spy during the Civil War. “Moses”

Leading Escaping Slaves Along the Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad • “Conductor” ==== leader of the escape • “Passengers” ==== escaping slaves • “Tracks” ==== routes • “Trains” ==== farm wagons transporting the escaping slaves • “Depots” ==== safe houses to rest/sleep

Compromise of 1850

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 – 1896) So this is the lady who started the Civil War. --Abraham Lincoln

Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1852 • Sold 300, 000 copies in the first year. • 2 million in a decade!

Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1852

The “Know-Nothings” [The American Party] * Nativists. * Anti-Catholics. * Antiimmigrants. 1849 - Secret Order of the Star. Spangled Banner created in NYC.

1852 Presidential Election Franklin Pierce Democrat Gen. Winfield Scott Whig John Parker Hale Free Soil

1852 Election Results

Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854

“Bleeding Kansas” Border “Ruffians” (pro-slavery Missourians)

“The Crime Against Kansas” Sen. Charles Sumner (R-MA) Congr. Preston Brooks (D-SC)

John Brown: Madman, Hero or Martyr? Mural in the Kansas Capitol building by John Steuart Curry (20 c)

Birth of the Republican Party, 1854 * Northern Whigs. * Northern Democrats. * Free-Soilers. * Know-Nothings. * Other miscellaneous opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

1856 Presidential Election James Buchanan Democrat John C. Frémont Republican Millard Fillmore Whig

1856 Election Results

Dred Scott v. Sanford, 1857

The Lincoln-Douglas (Illinois Senate) Debates, 1858 A House divided against itself, cannot stand.

Stephen Douglas & the Freeport Doctrine Popular Sovereignty?

John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry, 1859

1860 Presidential Abraham Lincoln Election John Bell Republican Constitutional Union Stephen A. Douglas Northern Democrat John C. Breckinridge Southern Democrat

Republican Party Platform in 1860 * Non-extension of slavery [for the Free-Soilers. * Protective tariff [for the No. Industrialists]. * No abridgment of rights for immigrants [a disappointment for the “Know-Nothings”]. * Government aid to build a Pacific RR [for the Northwest]. * Internal improvements [for the West] at federal expense. * Free homesteads for the public domain [for farmers].

1860 Election: 3 “Outs” & 1 ”Run!”

1860 Election: A Nation Coming Apart? !

1860 Election Results

Secession!: SC - Dec. 20, 1860

Fort Sumter: April 12, 1861

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