Growth of a Nation:

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Growth of a Nation

• The War Between
• the States

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Quiz
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twice before answering.
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• This area was growing quickly. There are lots
  of people living in towns and cities. Many worked
  in the factories.

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Test
1.What caused this conflict? 2.Who was involved
in this conflict? 3.Did this conflict result in
change?
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• Differences
• divide the
• North and South

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North

• Lots of people
• Jobs in towns and cities
• Factories
• Change is happening quickly

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South

• Farming remained popular
• Many small farms
• Some huge plantations
• Rich soil and warm weather

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Eli Whitney

• Invented the cotton gin in 1793
• Cotton gin removed the seeds
• Cotton prepared faster
• More cotton to market
• faster

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Demand for cotton
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Demand for more slaves
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Change and Conflict

• Western states
• free states or slave states
• States Rights to choose
• Henry Clay works on compromises

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Election of 1860

• Douglas
• vs.
• Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln

• Tall, thin man from the frontier
• Wore plain, dark clothes
• Not well known outside Illinois
• Slavery a question of right or wrong
• Slavery should not spread

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Stephen Douglas

• Heavy, and a foot shorter than Lincoln
• Well educated
• Wore fine clothes
• Serving in the Senate
• Well known
• Each new state should decide about slavery

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South Carolina Seceded

• November 6, 1860
• Lincoln won the election
• December 20, 1860
• South Carolina seceded

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The Confederacy

• Six other states followed South Carolina
• Mississippi
• Florida
• Alabama
• Georgia
• Louisiana
• Texas

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Jefferson Davis

• Mississippi senator
• Became the
• president of the
• Confederacy

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Union Divided

• Abraham Lincoln is president
• of the North
• Jefferson Davis is president
• of the South
• April 12, 1861 the battle began

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Bibliography

• Early United States Harcourt Brace Social
  Studies (2000).Orlando, FL Harcourt Brace.

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• Another major conflict between the North and
  South was slavery. This escaped slave led over
  300 slaves to freedom through the Underground
  Railroad.

Ruby Bridges
Harriett Tubman
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• The North and the South disagree. Henry Clay
  worked on compromises between the slave states
  and free states. One of the main conflicts was
  ____________ .

Farming
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• This Mississippi senator became the President of
  the Confederacy.

Jefferson Davis
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• After South Carolina seceded, Mississippi,
  Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas
  followed. They joined together
• and formed the
• _____________ .

Confederacy
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• After Lincoln won the election
• in 1860 and became president,
• this state was the first to
• secede, leave the nation.

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• He ran for president in 1860
• but lost to Abraham Lincoln.

Stephen Douglas
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• He was elected president
• in 1860, and he led the Union
• during the
• War Between the States.

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• This election was critical to the
• new nation.

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• On this day,
• the War Between the States started.

July 4, 1775
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• This man invented the
• cotton gin in 1793.
• This invention removed
• the seeds from the
• cotton faster
• and allowed cotton
• to be shipped quicker.

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• This area has some
• huge plantations but
• mostly small farms.
• The warm weather and
• rich soil makes farming
• very popular.

South
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• More land to grow cotton
• Demand for more labor,
• slaves
• Slave, Harriett Tubman lead more than 300 slaves
  to The Underground Railroad

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