civil war - causes. sectionalism: placing of the interest of one’s region ahead of the nation
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Civil War - Causes
Sectionalism: placing of the interest of one’s
region ahead of the nation
Economic Differences
• North– Tariff on British goods
made the sale of Northern goods increase
– North=rich!– Transportation links:
mass canals, RRs = commerce
• South– Tariff on British goods
bad! It reduced exports and the British bought less cotton
– South=mad!– Transportation links:
no canals, few RRs connecting to big cities
Cultural Differences
• North– Fast –paced lifestyle– Work outside the
home
• South– Farming– Old fashioned– Self-sufficient– Land of chivalry
Political Differences
• North– Federal Power
• South– State Power
Virginia
Range of Opinions
• Proslavery– Southern Plantation owners who believed in slavery
and its necessity for daily life
• Popular Sovereignty– Belief that residents of a territory should be able to
choose for themselves
• Free Soil– A political party formed to oppose the extension of
slavery within the US
• Abolition– The ending of legalized slavery
Congressional Efforts at Settling the IssueMissouri Compromise
• Missouri Compromise– A series of laws enacted in 1820 to maintain
the balance of power between slave states and free states
– Maine = free– Missouri = slave
Congressional Efforts at Settling the IssueCompromise of 1850: Fugitive Slave Law
• California = free; Utah and New Mexico use popular sovereignty for slavery
• Slave trade in DC is illegal, but not slavery
• Stricter fugitive slave laws
Congressional Efforts at Settling the IssuePopular Sovereignty
• Intention to allow people to choose for themselves in their own territory
• Effect on Kansas – flooded with pro and anti slavery folks – led to riots
• John Brown – remember him?
Abolitionists
• A person seeking the legal end of slavery!
Abolitionists
Frederick Douglass
• Former slave, lecturer• Active in the
Underground Railroad• Supported Women’s
Suffrage, attended Seneca Falls convention in 1848
Harriet Tubman
• Conductor on the Underground RR – made 19 trips
• Former slave – as a child struck on head by overseer with a lead weight
• Helped 300 slaves escape• Had a bounty on her head
Abolitionists
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
• Daughters of a SC slaveholder
• Angelina published An Appeal to Christian Women of the South
• Raised money petitioned Congress
William Lloyd Garrison
• Editor of the newspaper called The Liberator, published 1831-1865
• Demanded an immediate end to slavery
Harriet Beecher Stowe
• 1852 published Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• Lincoln was quoted as saying: “so this is the little lady who started the war”
Civil War Secession Map
• cwmap.pdf