AND THE NUMBER ONE CAUSE IS???

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1. SLAVERYALLOWED SINCE THE U.S. WAS A COLONY ALTHOUGH IT EXISTED

PRIMARILY IN THE SOUTH Why would slavery cause a war?

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2. MISSOURI COMPROMISETHE MISSOURI COMPROMISE

ALLOWED MISSOURI TO ENTER THE UNION AS A SLAVE STATE

WITH THE PROVISION THAT NO

MORE SLAVE STATES COULD

COME IN ABOVE THE

30* LATITUDE LINE.

MISSOURI COMPROMISE CONFERENCE COMMITTEE PAPERS

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THE ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT TOOK SHAPE IN 1833, WHEN WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON,

ARTHUR AND LEWIS TAPPAN, AND OTHERS FORMED THE AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY

SOCIETY IN PHILADELPHIA. THE GROUP ISSUED THIS

MANIFESTO ANNOUNCING THE REASONS FOR FORMATION OF

THE SOCIETY AND ENUMERATING ITS GOALS.

ABOLITIONISTS BELIEVED THAT SLAVERY WAS A NATIONAL SIN, AND THAT IT WAS THE MORAL

OBLIGATION OF EVERY AMERICAN TO HELP ERADICATE

IT FROM THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE BY FREEING ALL

SLAVES.

3. ABOLITIONISTS: OPPONENTS OF SLAVERY

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ABOLITIONISTS FACED HOSTILITY AND VIOLENCE IN THE EARLY YEARS OF THE

ANTI SLAVERY MOVEMENTIN THE EARLY 1830S AMOS DRESSER, A

MINISTER IN MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, WAS ARRESTED AND

PUBLICLY WHIPPED BY A COMMITTEE OF

PROMINENT CITIZENS OF NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE FOR BEING A MEMBER

OF AN OHIO ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY, POSSESSING AND

DISSEMINATING ANTI-SLAVERY MATERIALS.

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4. COMPROMISE OF 1850THE U.S. GAINED NEW TERRITORY AFTER THE

WAR WITH MEXICO WHICH REIGNITED THE BATTLE OVER THE NUMBER OF

SLAVE AND FREE STATES. CALIFORNIA WAS

ALLOWED TO ENTER INTO THE UNION AS A FREE

STATE WHICH UPSET THE BALANCE OF FREE AND SLAVE STATES SINCE

THERE HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN AN EQUAL NUMBER

OF BOTH. IN EXCHANGE THE SOUTH GOT THE FUGITIVE SLAVE

ACT WHICH REQUIRED RUNAWAY SLAVES TO BE

RETURNED TO THEIR MASTERS IN THE SOUTH.

DRAWING OF THE MAJOR FIGURES INVOLVED WITH THE COMPROMISE OF 1850. THIS EVENT

DEMONSTRATED HOW CLOSE THE UNION WAS TO SEPARATION.

SCOTT

CLAY

CALHOUN

WEBSTER

FILLMORE

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5. KANSAS NEBRASKA ACT, 1854THIS ACT OVERTURNED THE SLAVERY RESTRICTIONS OF THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE

BY INTRODUCING THE CONCEPT OF POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY. THIS MEANT THAT TERRITORIES THAT WERE PREVIOUSLY RESTRICTED FROM SLAVERY COULD NOW VOTE

ON WHETHER OR NOT TO BE A SLAVE STATE.

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6. SCOTT v. SANFORD 1857

THIS SUPREME COURT DECISION STATED THAT BLACK PEOPLE, FREE OR SLAVE, COULD NOT BE CITIZENS OF THE U.S. THIS ANGERED ABOLITIONISTS, THOSE WORKING TO ABOLISH

SLAVERY.

DRED SCOTT, A SLAVE, HAD BEEN TAKEN BY

HIS MASTER DR. EMERSON, AN ARMY SURGEON, TO A FREE

STATE AND A FREE TERRITORY AND BACK TO MISSOURI, A SLAVE STATE. SCOTT AND HIS WIFE HARRIET SUED

SANFORD, THE EXECUTOR OF

EMERSON'S ESTATE, FOR THEIR FREEDOM

ON THE BASIS OF THEIR RESIDENCE ON FREE

SOIL.

JUSTICE TANEY DRED SCOTT

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7. JOHN BROWN’S RAID ON HARPERS FERRY

"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 most unjust enactments, I submit: so let it be done!" (Last speech to the

court at his trial, November 2, 1859)

JOHN BROWN ATTACKED THE FEDERAL ARSENAL AT HARPERS FERRY, VA WITH

THE INTENT OF STARTING A SLAVE REVOLT. HE AND HIS

FOLLOWERS WERE CAPTURED AND JOHN

BROWN WAS HANGED. THIS ENFLAMED THE SOUTH AND

WAS A DIRECT CAUSE OF THE CIVIL WAR.

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8. ELECTION OF 1860THE ELECTION OF REPUBLICAN

LINCOLN, WHO RAN ON THE PROMISE OF NO MORE SLAVE STATES,

PROMPTED SOUTHERNERS TO SECEDE FROM THE UNION AND FORM THEIR OWN NATION, THE CONFEDERATE

STATES OF AMERICA.

9. Confederate States form

• Jefferson Davis is President• Served a 6 year term• There gov. did not believe the negro was equal

to the white man.

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