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• The War Between the States

The Civil War
Brother Against Brother
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Causes of and Events Leading to the Civil War

• Continual Debate over States Rights
• Issue of Slavery
• Dred Scott Decision 1857
• John Browns Slave Revolt at Harpers Ferry 1859
• Election of Abraham Lincoln as 16th President
  1860
• Confederate States secede from the Union 1861

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Harriet Beecher Stowes
publication Uncle Toms Cabin fueled the fire of
the slavery debate.
The 2 Harriets
Slavery
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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The Dred Scott Decision
1857
that all constitutional means should be used to
prevent the increase, to mitigate, and finally to
eradicate the evil of slavery,
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John Brown's Slave Revolt at Harper's Ferry

• "What I mean by the higher law is, the law of
  nature by which we suppose that God, in giving
  man his existence, gave him the right to exist
  the right to breathe vital air the right to
  enjoy the light of the sun to drink the waters
  of the earth to unfold his moral nature to
  learn the laws that control his moral and
  physical being to bring himself into harmony
  with those laws, and enjoy that happiness which
  is consequent on such obedience, was the theory
  of that law applied to the condition of African
  slavery in the United States?
• Unquestionably, to all.
• -John Brown

Frederick Douglas
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John Brown Took Harper's Ferry HostageOctober
16, 1859

• John Brown's raid was perhaps the final spark
  that ignited the Civil War. Certainly the words
  he spoke at his death would be remembered "Now,
  if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit
  my life, for the furtherance of the ends of
  justice, and MINGLE MY BLOOD FURTHER WITH THE
  BLOOD OF MY CHILDREN, and with the blood of
  millions in this Slave country, whose rights are
  disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust
  enactments -- I say LET IT BE DONE."

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Amidst the countrys unrest, citizens dutifully
elected their leader. But this unifying action
did not unify the nation.
ABE LINCOLN 16TH PRESIDENT!
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• Lincoln Quote of the Week"I am naturally
  anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is
  wrong. I can not remember when I did not so
  think, and feel."--From the April 4, 1864 Letter
  to A.G. Hodges

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The Secession of the Confederate States
Letter to Fort Sumter from Abraham Lincoln
Conferate Song
This letter was sent to Captain Anderson with the
newly elected Presidents assurance of support
just prior to the fall of Fort Sumter .
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North/South
Abraham Lincoln
Presidential Leaders
Jefferson Davis
Davis' Flag
Lincoln's Administration
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Dred Scott Decision 1857 John Browns Slave
Revolt at Harpers Ferry 1859 Continual Debate
over States Rights Issue of Slavery Election of
Abraham Lincoln as 16th President
1860 Confederate States secede from the Union 1861
The gap between brother and brother grew until
finally the country was walking down
The Road to Civil War...
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Dred Scott Decision 1857 John Browns Slave
Revolt at Harpers Ferry 1859 Continual Debate
over States Rights Issue of Slavery Election of
Abraham Lincoln as 16th President
1860 Confederate States secede from the Union 1861
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