2. 1. Economic and social differences
between the North and the South
North
• Based more on industry
• people of different cultures
and classes had to work
together.
South
• based on agriculture
• the southern economy
became a one crop
economy, depending on
cotton and therefore on
slavery.
3. 2. States versus federal rights.
North
• Favored Federal rights over
state rights.
• Due to economy
South
• Favored state rights over
federal rights.
• Due to economy
4. 3. The fight between Slave and Non-
Slave State Proponents.
North
• Free states
• Free states with latitude 36
degrees 30 minutes north
except in Missouri (Missouri
Compromise)
• Wilmot Proviso which
would ban slavery in the
new lands.
South
• Slave states
• The Kansas-Nebraska Act of
1854. It created two new
territories that would allow
the states to use popular
sovereignty to determine
whether they would be free
or slave.
5. 4. Growth of the Abolition
Movement.
North
• Northerners became more
against slavery.
• John Brown’s Raid
• Harriet Beecher Stowe’s
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
South
• the fugitive slave act that
held individuals responsible
for harboring fugitive
slaves even if they were
located in non-slave states.
6. 5. The election of Abraham Lincoln
North
• Lincoln was anti-slavery
and in favor of Northern
interests.
South
• Before Lincoln was even
president, seven states had
seceded from the Union:
South
Carolina, Mississippi, Florida
, Alabama, Georgia, Louisian
a, and Texas.
7. A Few Possible Causes
• Popular Sovereignty
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• Kansas-Nebraska
• Bleeding Kansas
• Election of Abe Lincoln
• Abolitionist Movement
• John Brown’s Raid
• Dred Scott
8. Union Victories Indecisive Battles Confederate Victories
New Orleans
Shiloh
Charleston Harbor
Port Royal Sound
Stones River
Battle of the Ironclads
Fort Henry and Fort
Donelson
Vicksburg
Gettysburg
Atlanta
Chattanooga
Sherman's Marh to the Sea
Appomattox Courthouse
Fair Oaks (Seven Pines)
Perryville
Antietam
Wilderness Campaign
Fort Sumter
Bull Run
Jackson's Valley Campaign
The Seven Days
The Second Battle of Bull
Run
Yorktown
Fredericksburg
Chancellorsville
Important Battles
9. William Lloyd Garrison
Dred Scott
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
Henry Clay -
Daniel Webster."
Harriet Beecher Stowe -
Stephen Douglas
Frederick Douglass
John Brown
Nat Turner
Denmark Vesey -.
Jefferson Davis
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
Stonewall Jackson
George Pickett
Robert Gould Shaw
Abraham Lincoln
Clara Barton
Dorothea Dix
Theodore Weld
John Quincy Adams -
John Wilkes Booth
Famous People of the Civil War