Causes of the Civil War

Westward Expansion• The Progression of land acquisition in the

United States

Louisiana Purchase:1803

Original Colonies and General Growth

Florida, 1821

N. W. Territory, 1787

Mexican Cession, 1848

Oregon Country 1846

Texas, 1845

Westward Expansion

• The Missouri Compromise of 1820

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 and Bleeding Kansas

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Slavery

• The abolitionism movement in the North– Women in the abolition movement

• Nat Turner Rebellion of 1831 and the South’s changing view of slavery

Slavery

• The Underground Railroad

• Debate on how to handle the Free-Slave balance in the Senate with new states.

Politics and Politicians

• South Carolina and the Nullification Crisis of 1832

• 1847 Free Soil Party

Politics and Politicians

• The Emergence of the Republican Party

• Preston Brooks beats Charles Sumner in the Senate chamber after Sumner denounced the Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Economics• 1793 Eli Whitney and the Cotton “Gin”

– Implications to the South’s Economy

• Cash Crops and the need for labor in the South– Cotton, Sugar, Rice

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Economics

• The Northern U.S.’s economy– Focus on industrialization

• The Panic of 1857– Increase of sectional tension Google Images

The Progression of Events• The Missouri Compromise of 1820

• Nat Turner’s Revolt 1831

• S. Carolina and the Crisis of Nullification of 1832

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The Progression of Events

• October 1859: John Brown’s raid

on Harper’s Ferry

• November 1860: Abraham

Lincoln wins the election

as a Republican

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