Conflicts Leading to Secession

Opening Activity #9 (new page)

•Who were Harriet Tubman and Harriet Beecher

Stowe? What did they contribute to American

history?

Conflicts Leading to Secession

• Birth of the Republican Party– Formed by the opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska

Act– Republicans – keep slavery but do not extend– Northern Democrats – Popular Sovereignty– Southern Democrats – Slavery is good

Conflicts Leading to Secession

• Conflicts–Dred Scott (1850)–Sued for his freedom–Lost his case (15th

Amendment)–Considered property

Conflicts Leading to Secession

• Lincoln v. Douglass– Competition for the U.S. Senate– Lincoln Republican Slavery is immoral– Douglass Democrat Popular Sovereignty

Conflicts Leading to Secession• Abraham Lincoln– Self-educated; lawyer– Spoke in the people’s vernacular– Elected President in 1860

• South Secedes– South Carolina is first state to

secede– Confederate States of America– Jefferson Davis is chosen as

President

OA #10 (new page)

What was the Dred Scott case? How did this affect

American culture?

Civil War Begins

• Causes of the Civil War1. Slavery2. Secession3. Political Parties

Civil War Begins

• Goals for North and South– North To conquer South; bring South back to the

Union– South Fight a defensive war

• 3-part plan for the North1. Sail down the Mississippi River Cuts South in ½ 2. Block Southern Ports3. Capture the Southern Capital (Richmond)

Civil War Begins

• Fort Sumter (1861)– First shots of the Civil War– Taken over by Confederacy

• Battle of Bull Run– 1st battle of the Civil War– Confederate Army led by General Stonewall

Jackson– South Wins and boosts morale– As a result, some of the soldiers go home

Explain the causes of the Civil War by Pictures

• Create visual that contains and discusses the causes of the Civil War. • Your artwork must have at

least 3 pictures and be colored. Writing should be limited.

OA#11

Using the chart, which side had the advantage when it came to resources. How could this help them in the war?

Civil War

• Britain remains neutral during the war• Emancipation Proclamation– Lincoln dislikes slavery, but the gov’t doesn’t have

the power to abolish it– January 1st, 1863– Doesn’t set all the slaves free immediately– Only applied to slaves in the Confederate states– Gave the war a moral purpose

Civil War

• Life during the War– Conscription – military draft– African Americans = 10% of the Union Army– Women – 3,000 union nurses (Clara Barton)– Conditions were unsanitary, poor medical services– Economy North South

Activity

• Using your book, create a flow map of the major battles of the Civil War (pgs 169-173)– Be sure to label each battle with:• Name of battle• Year it took place• Who won the battle