1. The Road to War

2. Industrial Economy Which section of the country had an industrial economy?

3. Agricultural Economy Which section had an agricultural economy…mostly based on _____________?

4. Tariff Tax on ____________goods, or manufactured goods Strongly opposed by the __________ -- why?

5. Abolitionist One who wants to end ___________

6. Missouri Compromise Drew an east-west line through the Louisiana Purchase Slavery allowed below the line Slavery prohibited above the line, except in Missouri Keep the balance!

7. Compromise of 1850 California would be admitted as a free state Southern territories acquired from Mexico would decide on their own “When the residents of a territory vote to decide on the issue of slavery for themselves” = popular sovereignty Which side is happy about this?

8. Fugitive Slave Law Also a part of the Compromise of 1850 Citizens of the United States are responsible for catching and turning in runaway slaves

9. Kansas Nebraska Act Repealed the Missouri Compromise line Gave Kansas and Nebraska the right of popular sovereignty Led to Bleeding Kansas = fighting over slavery Leads to a new political party= the Republican Party

10. William Lloyd Garrison Led the Abolitionist movement Published the Liberator- Abolitionist newsletter Viewed the institution of slavery as a violation of Christian principles and argued for its abolition

11. Harriett Beecher Stowe Wife of New England clergyman Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin

12. Uncle Tom’s Cabin Best-selling novel about the horrors of slavery "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war."

13. Slave Revolts Increased in the 1800s Nat Turner-Newport News Gabriel Prosser- Richmond plot Fed white Southerner’s fears about slave rebellions and led to harsh laws in the South against fugitive slaves Southerners who favored abolition were intimidated into silence

14. Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) A slave who sues for his freedom! Supreme Court rules that slaves are not citizens… …and that Congress can not outlaw slavery in any territory.

15. Election of Lincoln (1860) “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” Lincoln is elected with NO support from the South Believes the Union should stay intact South Carolina secedes Secede – to withdraw from, to leave the Union (noun = secession)

16. Causes of the Civil War - Summary -Northern Abolitionists v. Southern defenders of slavery -Sectional debate over slavery, extension of slavery in the territories, and the nature of the Union (state’s rights)

17. Causes of the War - Summary -Failed compromises over slavery in the territories -U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott Case -Publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe -Ineffective presidential leadership in the 1850s