Transcript Note Page 19 - Long Term Causes of Civil War
Slide 1
- By Morgan J. Burris & Jenny Strader
US History
Note Page 19
“ Long Term Causes of Civil War”
Things are being set in motion…
The Gears are moving…
Slide 2
State’s Rights
-Federalism
-system of multiple
governments in order to give
more localized decision making
power
-10th Amendment
-all powers not given to the
federal government are
reserved for the states and
people.
Slide 3
Slavery
Pro-slavery – South!
Necessary Evil for the
economy.
Anti-slavery – North, takes
jobs from free Whites!
Opposed growth of slavery –
Okay in South but don’t
expand into West!
Slide 4
Nullification
-Sedition Acts
-Kentucky and Virginia
Resolutions
-Tariff laws
1828 Tariff Crisis – South Car.
-Slavery issues
-southern threats to nullify
any anti-slavery laws
Slide 5
Sectionalism
Issues become more and more
regional in nature
Slavery, tariffs, economics
Industrial north – Needs
southern cotton for factories!
Agricultural south – Cotton
dominates the economy!
Slide 6
Compromise of 1820
-drew a line to determine the
future areas of slavery
- solved the slavery debate for
about 20 years
Slide 7
Compromise of 1850
-Wilmot Proviso tried to block
slavery in old Mexican areas
but is defeated in Congress
California applies for
statehood
Debate begins and Henry Clay
organizes compromise
California admitted as free
state
South gets stronger Fugitive
Slave Law
Popular Sovereignty to help
decide future cases of slavery
Slide 8
Underground Railroad
-Many early attempts at escape
relied on luck & help from
others!
-Network of anti-slavery
advocates who helped slaves
escape (barns, remote
farmhouses, cellars.)
-Many times slaves needed to
get to Canada to be totally
free.
-Harriet Tubman – Most famous
conductor, most wanted woman
in America!
Slide 9
Slide 10
Slide 11
Fugitive Slave Law
o Allowed slave catchers to go
into free areas and capture
runaway slaves
o Made it a crime to help any
runaway
o Suspected slaves need not be
given a trial or a chance to
testify
o Law angered Northern
abolitionists
o Law eased Southern fears of
anti-slavery reforms.
Slide 12
Slide 13
Who Said it?
Can we as a nation continue together
permanently – forever – half slave and
Half free?
- Abraham Lincoln
“There’s two things I got a right to and these
Are Death and Liberty. One or the other
I mean to have.”
- Harriet Tubman
Slide 14
• “Abolition and the Union cannot coexist. As the
friend of the Union I openly proclaim it, - and
the sooner it is known the better. The former
may now be controlled, but in a short time it will
be beyond the power of man to arrest the course
of events. We of the South will not, cannot,
surrender our institutions.”
- John C. Calhoun, SC
Slide 15
Assignment:
Use the rest of today to work on
Causes of the Civil War: Vocab
It is Due Wednesday
Use the Red Book Glossary
Slide 16
The End
US History
Note Page 19
“ Long Term Causes of Civil War”
- By Morgan J. Burris & Jenny Strader
US History
Note Page 19
“ Long Term Causes of Civil War”
Things are being set in motion…
The Gears are moving…
Slide 2
State’s Rights
-Federalism
-system of multiple
governments in order to give
more localized decision making
power
-10th Amendment
-all powers not given to the
federal government are
reserved for the states and
people.
Slide 3
Slavery
Pro-slavery – South!
Necessary Evil for the
economy.
Anti-slavery – North, takes
jobs from free Whites!
Opposed growth of slavery –
Okay in South but don’t
expand into West!
Slide 4
Nullification
-Sedition Acts
-Kentucky and Virginia
Resolutions
-Tariff laws
1828 Tariff Crisis – South Car.
-Slavery issues
-southern threats to nullify
any anti-slavery laws
Slide 5
Sectionalism
Issues become more and more
regional in nature
Slavery, tariffs, economics
Industrial north – Needs
southern cotton for factories!
Agricultural south – Cotton
dominates the economy!
Slide 6
Compromise of 1820
-drew a line to determine the
future areas of slavery
- solved the slavery debate for
about 20 years
Slide 7
Compromise of 1850
-Wilmot Proviso tried to block
slavery in old Mexican areas
but is defeated in Congress
California applies for
statehood
Debate begins and Henry Clay
organizes compromise
California admitted as free
state
South gets stronger Fugitive
Slave Law
Popular Sovereignty to help
decide future cases of slavery
Slide 8
Underground Railroad
-Many early attempts at escape
relied on luck & help from
others!
-Network of anti-slavery
advocates who helped slaves
escape (barns, remote
farmhouses, cellars.)
-Many times slaves needed to
get to Canada to be totally
free.
-Harriet Tubman – Most famous
conductor, most wanted woman
in America!
Slide 9
Slide 10
Slide 11
Fugitive Slave Law
o Allowed slave catchers to go
into free areas and capture
runaway slaves
o Made it a crime to help any
runaway
o Suspected slaves need not be
given a trial or a chance to
testify
o Law angered Northern
abolitionists
o Law eased Southern fears of
anti-slavery reforms.
Slide 12
Slide 13
Who Said it?
Can we as a nation continue together
permanently – forever – half slave and
Half free?
- Abraham Lincoln
“There’s two things I got a right to and these
Are Death and Liberty. One or the other
I mean to have.”
- Harriet Tubman
Slide 14
• “Abolition and the Union cannot coexist. As the
friend of the Union I openly proclaim it, - and
the sooner it is known the better. The former
may now be controlled, but in a short time it will
be beyond the power of man to arrest the course
of events. We of the South will not, cannot,
surrender our institutions.”
- John C. Calhoun, SC
Slide 15
Assignment:
Use the rest of today to work on
Causes of the Civil War: Vocab
It is Due Wednesday
Use the Red Book Glossary
Slide 16
The End
US History
Note Page 19
“ Long Term Causes of Civil War”