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
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
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