CIVIL WAR NOTES

CIVIL WAR NOTES

OBJECTIVES 1 & 2

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Objective #1- North v. South1. Compare & Contrast the Northern & Southern state lifestyles.North: How was industry affecting the North? How did farms work in the North? Where we people coming from to fill all the jobs? (U.S. Ch. 12 pgs. 381-407, Ch. 14 pgs. 438-441 & A.J. Ch. 13 pgs. 385-395)South: What was the main way of making money in the South? Describe the plantation system. What crop and invention increased the use of slavery? (U.S. Ch. 13 pgs. 411-431 & A.J. Ch. 13 pgs. 396-406 )

A. The North1. Industry Growing a. Factories growing

b. Shipping Businesses1. Trade to and from Factories2. Trains / Inventions / Growth

c. Cities (Centers of Trade and Immigration)1. Grow with trade from new farms & people2. Free Workers & Farmers (NW Territory)

Objective #1- North v. South

Objective #1- North v. South

Objective #1- North v. South2. The People

A. Farmers in New Territories 1. Immigrants and poor whites from

South 2. Small family farms (No Slaves)B. Immigrants in the Cities 1. Looking for Work in factoriesC. Self Made People 1. Use free education 2. Can start from nothing and become wealthy

Ex.- Lincoln

Objective #1- North v. South

Objective #1- North v. South

Objective #1- North v. SouthB. The South

1. Cash Crop System a. Large Plantations

b. Cotton New King!!!-Takes a ton of labor

2. Planters are In Chargea. Run Politics / Economyb. Keep poor whites poor (No Jobs)

-No Jobs (Slaves do work)-No free education in South

Objective #1- North v. South

- What effect would this type of system have on population????????-Who do you think would be the only people to receive an education?

Objective #1- North v. South3. SLAVERY

a. Used in South since Jamestown (1803)b. Slavery slowing, but Cotton Becomes King

-Eli Whitney, Cotton Ginc. SLAVERY GROWS with COTTON KINGDOMd. Slaves are treated horrible

-Beatings -Cut of limbs-Raping Women -Bought & Sold

Objective #1- North v. South

Objective #2- Abolition Movement

A. Abolitionism- Fight to end Slavery1. Strong in the North (Religious Based)

a. 1st abolition society found by Ben Franklinb. Book Helps: Uncle Tom’s Cabin

-Many in North read of horrible treatmentc. Leaders: Frederick Douglas, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, William Lloyd Garrison

2. Underground Railroad:**System of trails and safe houses designed

to help slaves escape to the North and Canada.a. ‘Conductor’- Harriet Tubman

Slaves at a Plantation

Objective #2- Abolition Movement

Objective #2- Abolition Movement

Objective #2- Abolition Movement3. Reaction in the South

a. Congress to passes “Fugitive Slave Act”**Any runaway slave may be captured and returned

south from anywhere in the U.S-Kidnappings-No Safe Place

b. Claim that the North/Abolitionist are trying to ruin their way

of life

Objective #2- Balancing Power (New States)B. Balancing New States

1. Slave v. Free Statesa. Free states have more people

-Power in House of Rep.b. Slave states need to keep equal in Senate (2per state)

C. Compromises (Just Band Aids)1. Missouri Compromise (1820)

a. Missouri added as slave state / Maine as freeb. Northern part of Louisiana will be Free / Southern Slave

2. Compromise of 1850a. California added as free stateb. Stronger Fugitive Slave Law

Objective #2- Balancing Power (New States)

Objective #2- Balancing Power (New States)3. Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

a. People vote on slavery or notb. ‘Bleeding’ Kansas (Mini-Civil War)

-Southerners fight ‘Free’ settlersc. More free people move in, but president accepts

‘Slave’ constitution

Objective #3- Election of 1860A. New Political Party

1. Republicansa. ALL Northernersb. Most do not want slavery to SPREAD

2. Old Parties Splita. Democrats split- North / Southb. Whigs disappear (Most become Repub.)

B. Race for President1. Lincoln Chosen by Republicans

a. Promises NOT to OUTLAW Slavery where it already isb. Many think he is ‘uneducated’ westerner (Illinois)

2. Democrats- Douglas (North) / Breckenridge (South)3. BATTLE for NORTH (Many more People)

a. Lincoln not even on Southern state ballots!!!!!!

Objective #3- Election of 1860C. Lincoln Wins Presidency!!!

1. South Super Duper Mada. Say he wants to OUTLAW Slavery!! Not- True

2. Lincoln hopes to keep country together

Objective #3- Election of 1860

Why do you think the Compromises failed?

Objective #3- Election of 1860D. SECESSION! – Dec. 20 1860

1. States’ Rights- States can leave the Union because they had joined voluntarilya. South Carolina 1st and the rest of South follows

2. Let them go? Or Make them stay?a. Lincoln makes clear they can not leave!!

3. Confederate States of Americaa. Gov’t formed by the South

b. Southern Congressmen / Army Officers Leave for South

Objective #3- Election of 1860E. South Takes Federal Property

1. Who do they belong to????a. Forts, Ports, Army Supplies, Buildings

2. Fort Sumter, S.C. (SPARK!!)a. Fort needs suppliesb. Lincoln wants to Re-supply Fort

3. Confederate Troops fire on the fort before supplies can arrive

Objective #3- Election of 1860

What do the Borders states have that the rest of the North does not?