1. America’s Civil War
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2. Key Differences between the North and the South
1. Different economies
a. Northern economy was industrial. Agriculture was small farms.

3. Key Differences between the North and the South
1. Different economies
B. Southern economy was agricultural - cotton and tobacco

4. Key Differences between the North and the South
2. State’s Rights verses power of the Federal Government
b. Northerners generally favored more power to the federal Government
a. Southerners favored state’s rights (less power to Federal Government)

5. Key Issue leading to war was NOT slavery but...
it was the Expansion of Slavery into the Western Territories.

6. The Southern states wanted to make sure that they kept pace with the Northern States in the U.S. Senate

7. When the territories became states, the Southerners wanted to make sure that at least half of them were slave states and would vote pro-slavery.

8. Compromises: Attempts to avoid division and war
Missouri Compromise and Compromise of 1850.
Temporary solutions but did not avoid war.

9. Popular Sovereignty
Means the citizens of a territory vote to determine if their territory would be free or state.
This led to a great deal of violence as outsiders moved in to influence the vote. “Bleeding Kansas”

10. Also declared part of the Missouri Compromise Unconstitutional
Dred Scott Case
Supreme Court ruled slaves were property and Congress could make no laws restricting property ownership.
A black slave living in a territory where slavery was illegal sued for freedom, but the Supreme Court determined that slaves were property with no rights under the Constitution.
Also declared part of the Missouri Compromise Unconstitutional

11. This decision angered abolitionists (those who opposed slavery).
Dred Scott Case
This decision angered abolitionists (those who opposed slavery).
A black slave living in a territory where slavery was illegal sued for freedom, but the Supreme Court determined that slaves were property with no rights under the Constitution.
After the war the 14th Amendment was passed guaranteeing blacks equal protection under the Constitution.

12. Abraham Lincoln elected President
Lincoln was part of the new Republican party that opposed the spreading of slavery into the territories

13. Abraham Lincoln elected President
2. Lincoln said that the states did not have the legal right to secede. Our country was a Union of people and not states.

14. Abraham Lincoln elected President
3. The South attack a Federal garrison
(Fort Sumter) and started the Civil war.

15. Abraham Lincoln elected President
4. Lincoln’s initial was aim was to Preserve the Union and NOT to end slavery.

16. Abraham Lincoln elected President (not a single slave was freed)
5. Later in the war Lincoln made slavery an issue by writing the Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves but only in the areas NOT under Federal control.
(not a single slave was freed)

17. The End