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Chapter 19: Causes & Effects of the Civil War

South “cotton kingdom” Plantation system Slave labor Agricultural Anti-Clay’s “American System” National Banking Internal improvements tariffs

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Slide 2 South cotton kingdom Plantation system Slave labor Agricultural Anti-Clays American System National Banking Internal improvements tariffs North Manufacturing & factory system Used of immigrants for labor in new factories Pro-Clays American System Slide 3 States Rights Compromise of 1850 CA added as free state & other territory popular sovereignty & fugitive slave laws Kansas-Nebraska Act Popular vote in territory on slave issue Bleeding Kansas Caning of Senator Sumner Dred Scott v. SanfordSlaves were seen as property Republican Party & Election of 1860 Fort Sumter Slide 4 Second Great Awakening Abolition Movement: Frederick Douglass & Up from Slavery William Lloyd Garrison & The Liberator Sojourner Truth Rebellions: Nat Turner: slave rebellion John Browns Raid Womens Rights Movement Seneca Falls Conference (Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton) Declaration of Sentiment of Rights Slide 5 Compromise of 1850: CA admitted as free state No slave trade in DC Popular Sovereignty in Mexican Cession Stricter FSL Kansas-Nebraska Act Slavery based on pop. Sov. Repeal Compromise of 1820 K-N Act: Proslavery supporters from Missouri poured into Kansas vote early & often Southerners won the election & created puppet government Slide 6 Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts gave a speech Crime Against Kansas where he condemned pro-slave southerners & insulted a SC Senator SC Congressman Preston Brooks retaliated by beating Sumner with a cane Slide 7 Uncle Toms Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe Portrayed the evils of slavery by focusing on splitting slave families and the phys. abuse Slide 8 NAT TURNERJOHN BROWN Oct 1831 in VA Turner was a slave who led a rebellion Resulted in 60 deaths Convicted and hanged Body was flayed, beheaded and quartered May 1856led an attack & killed 5 men; escaped justice 1859JB seized the arsenal @ Harpers Ferry Killed 7 Most slaves unaware of JB and did not rise up in rebellion Found guilty & hanged Slide 9 February 4, 1861Confederate States of America was born Fort Sumter was one of few Union footholds in the South Confederates attacked and the fort fell out of the Union control RESULT: United the North; Virginia and other upper Southern states seceded *1863: West Virginia was created Slide 10 Confederate States of America: Before Ft. Sumter: South Carolina Florida Georgia Alabama Mississippi Louisiana Texas After Ft. Sumter: Virginia North Carolina Tennessee Arkansas United States of America Maine Vermont New Hampshire Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana Illinois Iowa Michigan Wisconsin Minnesota California Border States: Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware Slide 11 Slide 12 1 st major battle of war IMPACT: North realized it was going to be a LONG & bloody war; South grew complacent and had trouble with deserters (felt the war was over) Slide 13 Union military strategy to strangle the South by blockading its coasts Control the Mississippi to cut of Confederacy in half Shermans March to the Sea Capture key cities in the South: Richmond, Atlanta, Charleston Slide 14 Slide 15 Lincolns declaration that freed enslaved people in the rebelling territory, but not slaves in the Union or Border States CONFISCATION ACT: Union army could confiscate slaves as they invaded South on the basis they were contraband of war Slide 16 Many Northerners felt it went too far; opposed fighting an abolition war Abolitionists thought Lincoln did not go far enough; though some pleased South accused Lincoln of trying to stir up a slave insurrection Slide 17 Slide 18 Standing in the way of full emancipation was the U.S. Constitution Process was started on passing an amendment (passed after Lincolns death) Simply stated: Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Slide 19 After the E.P., hundreds of thousands of southern slaves walked away from slavery to seek protection from approaching Union armies. 200K African Americans fought in segregated regiments in the Union army and navy Ex: Massachusetts 54 th Regiment (Glory) Slide 20 Turning Points 1. Vicksburg (Spring 1863): Union controlled most of Mississippi River & New Orleans. Grant began siege against city of Vicksburg. After 7 weeks, Confederates surrendered the city. Union now controlled Mississippi & cut TX, LA, & Ark. from rest of Confederacy 2. Gettysburg (July 1863): Lee took offensive leading an army into Maryland; 3 day decisive battle of the war; went back and forth b/t USA & CSA; Lee retreated & never regained the offensive Slide 21 Slide 22 Slide 23 Slide 24 Shermans March (Sept 64 to Feb 65): Started from Chattanooga to Atlanta to Savannah to Columbia & north; army of 100K destroyed everything in its path everything the CSA could use to survive IMPACT: broke the will of the South & its ability to fight on Slide 25 Republican: Abraham Lincoln (i) Democrat: Gen. George McClellan Slide 26 Effects of blockade, Sherman, spread hunger in much of the South Grant continued to outflank Lees army until they collapsed @ Petersburg followed by Richmond (April 1865) Confederate army surrounded near Appomattox Court House in VA April 9, 1865 Lee surrendered to Grant Slide 27 April 14, 1865 John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln @ the Fords Theater Conspirator attacked Sec. of State Seward Slide 28 Slide 29 Slide 30 Chapter 22 Slide 31 YEARS: 1865-1877 Attempt to achieve national reunification and reconciliation after the Civil War and improve life of former slaves 4 Questions to answer: 1. How to rebuild the South? 2. What would be the condition of the A-A in the South? 3. How would the South be integrated into the Union? 4. Who would control the process: Southern states, president or Congress? Slide 32 Passing of the 13 th, 14 th, & 15 th Amendments were passed Outlawed slavery (13) Defined a citizen (14) Suffrage regardless of race or color (15) Slide 33 Freedmens Bureau: to help the unskilled, uneducated, poverty-stricken ex-slaves to survive (social services, medical care, etc) Slide 34 Southern states had to ratify the 13-15 th Amendments Swear allegiance to the US Obey emancipation Slide 35 Lincoln and Congress had varying views on what to do with the rebelling states: Lincoln: recognize a new state gov; 10% of ex- Confederate voters to pledge loyalty of the US and obey emancipation Congress: 50% ex-Confederate voters to pledge loyalty; iron-clad oath; saw CSA as conquered territory and subject to Congress conditions and wishes Slide 36 Slide 37 Slide 38 Election of 1876 Republicans nominate Governor Rutherford B. Hayes, not Grant Democrats choose Governor Samuel J. Tilden Tilden wins popular vote, 1 shy of electoral; 20 electoral disputed Compromise of 1877Hayes gets presidency, Democrats get: - federal troops leave LA, SC - funding for Southern railroad, waterways - conservative Southerner in cabinet Compromise means end of Reconstruction Slide 39 Republicans fail to protect rights they gave to former slaves Unwillingness to distribute land blocks economic independence Amendments abolish slavery, give basis for civil rights legislation African-American schools, civic groups increase literacy, opportunity