Causes of the Civil WarRoad to Secession

1. Missouri Compromise 1820

2. Wilmot Proviso 1846-1850

Problems of Sectional Balance in 1850

Problems of Sectional Balance in 1850

ß California statehood.

ß Underground RR & fugitive slave issues

ß California statehood.

ß Underground RR & fugitive slave issues

5. Compromise of 1850

a) California ….

b) Territories of NM & UT = popular sovereignty

c) Fugitive Slave Act

WE GET TO CHOOSE!!!

6.Uncle Tom’s Cabin

1852

6.Uncle Tom’s Cabin

1852

Sold 300,000 copies inthe first year.

2 million in a decade!

Sold 300,000 copies inthe first year.

2 million in a decade!

HarrietBeecherStowe(1811 – 1896)

HarrietBeecherStowe(1811 – 1896)

So this is the lady who started the Civil War.

-- Abraham Lincoln

So this is the lady who started the Civil War.

-- Abraham Lincoln

8. Gadsden Purchase

GADSEN Purchase Video

10. Kansas – Nebraska Act 1854

a) Overturns Missouri Compromise

b) KS & NE …

WE GET TO CHOOSE!!!

WE GET TO CHOOSE TOO!!!

• This 1856 political cartoon depicts President Franklin Pierce holding down the beard of a giant Free Soiler as Senator Stephen Douglas shoves an African-American man down the Free Soiler's throat.

11. “Bleeding Kansas”

11. “Bleeding Kansas”

Border “Ruffians”

(pro-slavery

Missourians)

Border “Ruffians”

(pro-slavery

Missourians)

• Jayhawks antislavery militants who battled ‘border ruffians’ from Missouri to keep the state free (popular sovereignty)

• John Brown’s Pottawatomie Massacre was a reaction to the violence• "These men are all talk. What we need is action - action!" - John Brown

John Brown: Madman, Hero or Martyr?

John Brown: Madman, Hero or Martyr?

Mural in the Kansas Capitol building

by John Steuart Curry (20c)

Mural in the Kansas Capitol building

by John Steuart Curry (20c)

12. Beating of Sumner “The Crime Against

Kansas”

12. Beating of Sumner “The Crime Against

Kansas”

Sen. Charles Sumner(R-MA)

Sen. Charles Sumner(R-MA)

Congr. Preston Brooks(D-SC)

Congr. Preston Brooks(D-SC)

13. Birth of the Republican Party, 1854

13. Birth of the Republican Party, 1854

ß Northern Whigs.

ß Northern Democrats.

ß Free-Soilers.

ß Know-Nothings.

ß Northern Whigs.

ß Northern Democrats.

ß Free-Soilers.

ß Know-Nothings.

15. Dred Scott v. Sanford 185715. Dred Scott

v. Sanford 1857

Lets take a look at the arguments

19. John Brown’s Raidon Harper’s Ferry, 185919. John Brown’s Raid

on Harper’s Ferry, 1859

Doc A: John Brown’s SpeechI have, may it please the court, a few words to say. In the first place, I deny everything but what I have all along admitted -- the design on my part to free the slaves. That was all I intended. I never did intend murder, or treason, or the destruction of property, or to excite or incite slaves to rebellion, or to make insurrection. I have another objection: had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or in behalf of any of their friends . . . it would have been all right; and every man in this court would have deemed it an act worthy of reward rather than punishment. I believe that to have done what I have done--on behalf of God’s despised poor was not wrong, but right. Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life to further the end of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust acts-- I say: so let it be done!

Doc C: Letter to John Brown in Prison Massachusetts, Oct 26th, 1859

Dear Capt Brown,

You do not know me, but I have supported your struggles in Kansas, when that Territory became the battle-ground between slavery and freedom.

Believing in peace, I cannot sympathize with the method you chose to advance the cause of freedom. But I honor your generous intentions, I admire your courage, moral and physical, I respect you for your humanity, I sympathize with your cruel loss, your sufferings and your wrongs. In brief, I love you and bless you.

Thousands of hearts are throbbing with sympathy as warm as mine. I think of you night and day, bleeding in prison, surrounded by hostile faces, sustained only by trust in God, and your own strong heart. I long to nurse you, to speak to you sisterly words of sympathy and consolation. May God sustain you, and carry you through whatsoever may be in store for you!

Yours with heartfelt respect, sympathy, and affection.

L. Maria Child.

Video on Bleeding Kansas and John Brown’s Raid

1860

Election

Results

1860

Election

Results

22. Secession!: SC Dec. 20, 1860

22. Secession!: SC Dec. 20, 1860

Newspaper ArticleYour job is to create a newspaper headline,

article, and picture that takes place after the results of the election of 1860 come out.

You are to take the perspective of a stereotypical Southerner or Northerner.

Your finished product must contain…A pictureA headlineAn article- In 5 sentences or more, write a

brief article that goes along with your picture and headline.