1. Unit 5: Antebellum Period Part III
SS8H5 Analyze the impact of the Civil War on Georgia. a. Explain the importance of key issues and events that led to the Civil War; include slavery, states’ rights, nullification, Compromise of 1850 and the Georgia Platform, the Dred Scott case, Abraham Lincoln’s election in 1860, and the debate over secession in Georgia.

2. November 14, 2017
Agenda Messages: Frayer Model Civil War due 11/27th Civil War Unit Test 12/05 Civil War Project due 12/2 RETEST Unit 4B Friday during your PE connection time only Complete Graphic Organizer on back of page 3. If you do not have it you must copy on your own paper.

3. Issues Leading to the Civil War
Name: _______________
Topic
Date
What was the Issue?
End Result(s)
Missouri Compromise of 1820 (p. 235)
Missouri Compromise of 1850 (p. 239)
The Georgia Platform (p. 240)
Kansas-Nebraska Act (p. 241)
Dred Scott Case
(p. 241)

4. Unit 5: Antebellum Period Part III
SS8H5 Analyze the impact of the Civil War on Georgia. a. Explain the importance of key issues and events that led to the Civil War; include slavery, states’ rights, nullification, Compromise of 1850 and the Georgia Platform, the Dred Scott case, Abraham Lincoln’s election in 1860, and the debate over secession in Georgia.

5. November 15, 2017
Agenda Messages: Frayer Model Civil War due 11/27th Civil War Unit Test 12/05 Civil War Project due 12/5 RETEST Unit 4B Friday during your PE connection time only Complete Graphic Organizer on back of page 3. If you do not have it you must copy on your own paper.

6. Missouri Compromise of 1820
1819-USA had 22 states succeed enthusatic
11 of those states allowed slavery in them= slave states
11 of the remaining states banned slavery= free states
Issue = Missouri applied for statehood as a slave state in 1819…This would mess up the balance.
Result = in 1820, Congress adopted the Missouri Compromise, which allowed Maine to enter the USA as free state.
The Missouri Compromise banned slavery north of 36°20’ latitude.

7. HOTS 1. Which region of the U.S. believed that the states
should be able to govern themselves without interference from the national government?
Southern states
Northern states
Great Lakes states
Pacific Coast states
2. What discovery led to the Cherokee losing their land in Georgia?
Oil in Columbus
Zinc in Madison
Gold in Dahlonega
Silver on Creek lands

8. Map of the Compromise of 1820

9. Video
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10. Compromise of 1850
By 1849, California’s population had drastically increased (Gold Rush of 1848).
By 1850, there were 15 slave states and 15 free states in the USA.
Issue = California wanted to enter in the USA as a free state.
Result: California is admitted as a free state, and the north agrees to follow the fugitive slave act.

11. The Compromise of 1850 (stop)
Compromise of 1850: Shake It Off Parody

12. HOTS 3. The purpose of the Missouri Compromise 1820 was to?
Let Missouri have slavery until 1850
All slavery in Maine but not Missouri
Maintain a balance of slave and free states.
Return slaves captured in free states to slave states

13. Benefits for the North (Results) Benefits for the South (Results)
Compromise of 1850
Benefits for the North (Results)
Benefits for the South (Results)
California came into the Union as a free state.
Slave trading was ended in Washington, D.C.
Texas gave up its idea of annexing New Mexico.
The territories of New Mexico and Utah would determine whether they wanted to be a slave state or free state.
The residents of the Washington, D.C. could keep the slaves they already owned.
Congress would pass the Fugitive Slave Act stating that slaves who ran away to free states would be returned to their owners.

14. The Georgia Platform
Issue = Georgians held a convention to discuss the Compromise of 1850.
Result = the delegates accepted the Compromise of and decided not to secede (not to leave the USA).
Many Georgians did not like the Compromise of 1850; however, Georgia politicians (Howell Cobb, Alexander Stephens, & Robert Toombs) encouraged the people of Georgia to accept it.
(Write this out) Alexander Stephens was a fierce advocate for Georgia NOT to secede from the Union.
Result: Georgia votes not to secede from the Union.

15. Video
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16. HOTS Which was not a result of the Compromise of 1850?
Owning slaves was forbidden in Washington D. C.
Slavery was permitted in the new state of California
Importation of slaves from Africa was declared illegal
Runaway slaves had to be returned to southern owners.

17. Kansas-Nebraska Act
Issue = In 1854, Kansas and Nebraska wanted to join the USA.
Result = Both of these territories could vote on whether to allow or ban slavery.
Northerners did not like the Kansas-Nebraska Act because the Missouri Compromise had already banned slavery north of 36°20’ latitude, in 1820.
Arguments and fights broke out over Kansas and Nebraska between the pro-slavery and free soilers groups.

19. Kansas-Nebraska Act (1,

20. Unit 5: Antebellum Period Part III
SS8H5 Analyze the impact of the Civil War on Georgia. a. Explain the importance of key issues and events that led to the Civil War; include slavery, states’ rights, nullification, Compromise of 1850 and the Georgia Platform, the Dred Scott case, Abraham Lincoln’s election in 1860, and the debate over secession in Georgia.

21. November 16, 2017
Agenda Messages: Frayer Model Civil War due 11/27th Civil War Unit Test 12/05 Civil War Project due 12/5 RETEST Unit 4B Friday during your PE connection time only

22. HOTS How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act change the Missouri Compromise?
It admitted Missouri to the Union as a free state.
It created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska
It permitted slavery north of Missouri’s southern boundary.
It changed the requirements necessary for a territory to become a state.

23. Dred Scott Case
In 1834, Dred Scott, a slave was taken by his owner from the slave state of Missouri to the free state of Illinois.
Then they went to live in the free state of Wisconsin.
Issue = When Dred Scott’s owner and him moved back to Missouri (slave state), Dred filed a lawsuit against his owner.
Result = In 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Dred Scott did not have the right to sue his master, because he was a slave.

24. Use some of resources below:
Dred Scott Decision
Use some of resources below:
An Unpopular Decision – The Dred Scott Decision
Video [2:00] or The Dred Scott Decision [5:46]

25. Lincoln and leading to WAR!!!
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26. The Election of 1860
Examine the four party platforms. Identify the position of each in terms of proslavery, anti-slavery, or pro-union.

27. The Election of 1860
Democratic Platform (Northern) – Stephen Douglas wanted people to decide about slavery in their own state/territory (popular sovereignty)
Democratic Platform (Southern) – John Breckinridge wanted to ensure slaveholders could own slaves in new territories
Republican Platform – Abraham Lincoln opposed the spread of slavery in new territories.
Constitutional Union Platform – John Bell wanted to keep the union intact

28. The Outcome of the Election of 1860

29. The Election of 1860
Believing that Lincoln’s ultimate goal was to end slavery, the southern states voted one by one to secede from the Union. South Carolina was the first state to secede.

30. Debate Over Secession
In 1861, there was a spirited debate in the Georgia General Assembly about if the state should join its southern brethren in breaking away from the Union.
Though there were strong supporters for both sides of the issue, Georgia eventually seceded from the Union after several other southern states.
Georgia Secedes from the Union: Today in Georgia History

31. Lincoln Wins the Election
Election of 1860 and Secession
Abraham Lincoln and the Republican party won the presidential election of Lincoln believed slavery should not spread into the new territories.
The Republicans wanted no slavery in territories, national banking, and protective tariffs. Southerners felt Lincoln’s election would lead to abolition of slavery in all states.

32. Secession
In December 1860, South Carolina declared that it had seceded from the Union and was no longer a part of the United States.
By mid-January 1861, Georgia was one of seven Southern states to secede from the United States.
Alexander Stephens of Georgia , who had opposed secession, noted in a famous “cornerstone speech” that the immediate cause of the conflict between north and south was African Slavery.
The Southern States become the Confederate States of America

33. South Carolina Secedes
December 20, 1860

34. Secession January & February, 1861

35. Secession
April & May, 1861

36. Virginia Joins the Confederacy April 17, 1861
Virginia joins the Confederate States of America.
Richmond becomes the Capital of the Confederacy (Write it out)

37. List the states as they seceded in order
South Carolina
Mississippi
Florida
Alabama
Georgia
Louisiana
Texas
Virginia
Arkansas
Tennessee
North Carolina

38. A President for the Confederacy February 9, 1861
Jefferson Davis is chosen as the President of the Confederate States of America.
He will be elected that November.

39. OPEN ACTIVE ASPIRE The end

40. Causes of the Civil War (Review)
Economic Differences
North= Industrial
South= Agriculture/Farming
States’ Rights
North= Believed the federal government/Constitution are supreme throughout the nation.
South= Believed in states’ rights and believed that the federal government did not have the right to tell them what to do.
Sectionalism
North= Wanted tariffs on imported goods
South= Did not want tariffs on imported goods, due to their trade relationship with Great Britain
Slavery
North= Banned slavery
South= Relied on slavery for the production of cash crops
Election of 1860 & Secession
North= Voted in Abraham Lincoln as the 16th U.S. President
South= 11 states seceded from the Union as a result of Lincoln’s win

41. Tonight’s Homework
Writing Prompt Topic- In a paragraph or more, explain how did Abraham Lincoln’s presidential election of 1860 led to The American Civil War? Use facts learned in class to support your response.

42. January 27th, 2017
Agenda Messages: Frayer Model Antebellum to the Civil War due 02/02 Test Antebellum to the Civil War 02/03 Development of Georgia to the Civil War Project due 02/10 CDA Unit 7 February 9th and 10th

43. Political Cartoon Activity
You will view a political cartoon from the period. Answer the questions that go with the cartoon. You will have 5 minutes to observe, review, and comment on each picture.
After the 5 minutes are up pass the picture to your neighbor.
At the end of 5 minutes the timer will go off pass the picture.

44. In a rarely seen side of the discussion, here McClellan is depicted as a mediator between Jeff Davis and Abraham Lincoln, who are trying to tear the United States apart for their own moral reasons. 

45. Political Cartoons A

46. Political Cartoons B

47. Election of 1860 Political Cartoon C

48. Political Cartoon D

49. Election of 1860 Political

50. Reference
Blankenship, G. and Wood, V. (2009). Georgia: CRCT Test Prep, 8th Grade Georgia Studies. Atlanta, GA: Clairmont Press, Inc.