Aim: What were the social, political, and economic causes of the Civil War?

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Aim What were the social, political, and
economic causes of the Civil War?
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Social

• Uncle Toms Cabin causes moral outrage in North
• Abolitionist crusade strengthened by resistance
  to the fugitive slave act
• Underground RR helps slave escape to the north
• Personal Liberty Laws help runaways remain free.

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• The South wanted to preserve their way of life
  and maintained their belief in states rights
• Nullification a states refusal to recognize an
  act of Congress

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SECTIONALISM (Economic)

• Placing the interests of ones own region ahead
  of the interests of the nation as a whole
• The North and The South developed differently
• North Industry and Manufacturing
• South Plantation Agriculture and Cash Crops

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POLITICAL

• THE CIVIL WAR WAS A RESULT OF THE FAILURE OF THE
  EXECUTIVE, LEGISLATIVE AND JUDICIAL BRANCH

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The Executive Branch

• Presidents did little to solve the growing
  sectional struggle in the United States
• A string of mediocre presidents felt it was not
  the presidents job to settle the various issues
  that caused tension
• Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan were all elected
  because they werent controversial

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The Legislative Branch

• Congress failed to deal with the question of
  slavery through compromise and popular
  sovereignty
• Various attempts to settle the issue of slavery
  only caused more tension.

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• Examples
• The Wilmot Proviso
• Stated that no slavery would be permitted in
  lands won from Mexico
• The Lecompton Constitution Supported by the
  President and stated that slavery would be
  protected in Kansas

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• Popular sovereignty and the Kansas Nebraska act
  led to fighting in Kansas
• Bleeding Kansas
• Bleeding Sumner

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THE JUDICIAL BRANCH

• The Dred Scott v Sanford Case
• Supreme Court ruled that slaves are property, and
  no law can deny a citizen of their property
• Slaves are property
• Opened all territories to slavery
• Repealed Missouri Compromise

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