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Page 1: Slavery Slavery was a strong political issue in the USA. Many political and religious groups want to abolish slavery; many wanted to keep it. Led to the

Page 2: Slavery Slavery was a strong political issue in the USA. Many political and religious groups want to abolish slavery; many wanted to keep it. Led to the

Slavery• Slavery was a strong political issue in the

USA.

• Many political and religious groups want to abolish slavery; many wanted to keep it.

• Led to the Missouri Compromise of 1820.– For every slave/free territory that became a

state, an opposite territory had to become a state as well.

– Kept equal balance between slave and free states.

Page 3: Slavery Slavery was a strong political issue in the USA. Many political and religious groups want to abolish slavery; many wanted to keep it. Led to the

Page 4: Slavery Slavery was a strong political issue in the USA. Many political and religious groups want to abolish slavery; many wanted to keep it. Led to the

• Missouri Compromise was not enough for many.

• Abolitionist movement grew stronger.– Wanted to abolish slavery.

• Groups such as the American Anti-Slavery Society grew very powerful and got involved in politics.

Page 5: Slavery Slavery was a strong political issue in the USA. Many political and religious groups want to abolish slavery; many wanted to keep it. Led to the

Page 6: Slavery Slavery was a strong political issue in the USA. Many political and religious groups want to abolish slavery; many wanted to keep it. Led to the

Page 7: Slavery Slavery was a strong political issue in the USA. Many political and religious groups want to abolish slavery; many wanted to keep it. Led to the

• In 1860, abolitionist Abraham Lincoln was elected President.– Did not plan to end slavery.

• Southern slave states hated Lincoln.– Believed that he would take away their rights,

including the right to own slaves.

• Southern states began to secede from the Union.– (Suh-seed) Leave and form their own country.

• 1861 – Civil War began.

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Abraham Lincoln

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• United States of America (USA) vs. Confederate States of America (CSA).– USA – President Abraham Lincoln.

• General Ulysses S. Grant.

– CSA – President Jefferson Davis.• General Robert E. Lee.

• North vs. South.

• Blue vs. Grey.

• Union vs. Confederacy.

• Union was mostly industry, Confederacy was mostly agriculture.

• Civil War literally tore apart this nation.

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General Ulysses S. Grant

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Jefferson Davis

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General Robert E. Lee

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Page 16: Slavery Slavery was a strong political issue in the USA. Many political and religious groups want to abolish slavery; many wanted to keep it. Led to the

Page 17: Slavery Slavery was a strong political issue in the USA. Many political and religious groups want to abolish slavery; many wanted to keep it. Led to the

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• 1863 – Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

• Freed the Southern slaves.– Lincoln wanted the slaves to rebel and fight

against the Confederacy.

• To the CSA, this was illegal.

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Emancipation ProclamationFirst Draft

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Page 22: Slavery Slavery was a strong political issue in the USA. Many political and religious groups want to abolish slavery; many wanted to keep it. Led to the

Page 23: Slavery Slavery was a strong political issue in the USA. Many political and religious groups want to abolish slavery; many wanted to keep it. Led to the

Page 24: Slavery Slavery was a strong political issue in the USA. Many political and religious groups want to abolish slavery; many wanted to keep it. Led to the

Page 25: Slavery Slavery was a strong political issue in the USA. Many political and religious groups want to abolish slavery; many wanted to keep it. Led to the

Page 26: Slavery Slavery was a strong political issue in the USA. Many political and religious groups want to abolish slavery; many wanted to keep it. Led to the

Page 27: Slavery Slavery was a strong political issue in the USA. Many political and religious groups want to abolish slavery; many wanted to keep it. Led to the

Page 28: Slavery Slavery was a strong political issue in the USA. Many political and religious groups want to abolish slavery; many wanted to keep it. Led to the

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• 1865 – Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House.– The Civil War was over.

• Days after the war ended, Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Boothe in Ford’s Theater.

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John Wilkes Boothe

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• The end of the Civil War led to the creation of three new constitutional amendments.– 13th Amendment – Slavery is outlawed.– 14th Amendment – All people born or made

citizens have the same rights and have equal protection under the law.

– 15th Amendment – No discrimination based on race, color, or previous status as a slave.

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Reform

• Women in the USA began to push for suffrage.– Voting rights.

• Suffrage movement started by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

• Held the Seneca Falls Convention in Seneca Falls, NY.– Wrote a Bill of Rights of Women.

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Lucretia Mott

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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• Later suffragettes included Susan B. Anthony.

• These women did not live to see women get the vote.

• 19th Amendment – Gave women the right to vote.– Signed in 1920.

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Susan B. Anthony

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