ANALYZE THE FACTORS LEADING TO THE CIVIL WAR

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ANALYZE THE FACTORS LEADING TO THE CIVIL WAR
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ANALYZE THE FACTORS LEADING TO THE CIVIL WAR

• Role of abolitionists and Underground Railroad
• Sectionalism and States Rights
• Westward Expansion
• Missouri and 1850 Compromises
• Dred Scott Decision
• Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Role of abolitionists and Underground Railroad

• Who were the abolitionists and what did they do?
• William Lloyd Garrison and the Liberator
• Womens active roleex. of Angelina Grimke
• Frederick Douglass4th of July speech
• Underground Railroad
• Harriet Tubman

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HARRIET TUBMAN AND FAMILY
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Underground Railroad
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Role of abolitionists
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Abolitionists
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Responses to Abolitionists, North and South

• Violent Opposition in North Example of burning
  of Pennsylvania Hall
• Reasons for northern hostility (see document on
  race-based law in the north)
• Southern Responses Repression and Gag Rule
• Reasons for southern fears

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Northern Responses
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Sectionalism and States Rights Westward
Expansion

• Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion
• Sectionalism in party politics (who controls
  territories, states, national government)
• Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850
• Fugitive Slave Law
• Rise of Republican Party Free Soil, Free Labor,
  Free Men
• Southerners Views of States Rights

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Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion
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Sectionalism in party politics
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Compromise, 1850
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Fugitive Slave Law, 1850
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Fugitive Slave Law, 1850
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Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854

• Popular Sovereigntyrescinded Missouri Compromise
• Stephen Douglas
• Bleeding Kansas
• John Brown and Harpers Ferry

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Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854
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Dred Scott Decision, 1857

• Background
• Decision
• Effects

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John Brown Terrorist or Hero?
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CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR

• Why Did the South Secede?
• Why Did the North Fight?