Unit 10 Introduction/Causes of the Civil War

Introduction Video

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7m4ld6Bgxc

KEY

VOCABULARY/INDIVIDUALS

Secession

The withdrawal of a state from a union

A Confederacy

An alliance formed for a common purpose

The Confederacy

The Confederate States. The Southern states that seceded joined
together to make up “The Confederacy.”

The Union

The United States; especially the northern states during
the Civil War

Abraham Lincoln

The President of the United States of American during the Civil
War

Jefferson Davis

The President of the Confederate States (The South) during the
Civil War.

FLOWCHARTS OF THE

UNIT

Causes and Events of the American Civil War

Causes of the Civil War

Sectionalism

Slavery

States’ Rights

Civil War

Causes of the U.S. Civil
War

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Sectionalism

Sectionalism

• Americans tended to be only concerned with

the interests of their own region.

• North vs. South vs. West

• Regional Differences:

• North: Industrial. Against Slavery

• South: Agricultural. Depended on Slavery

• West: Topic of argument between the North and the

South

States’ Rights

States’ Rights

• Southern political leaders argued:

• The federal government’s powers should be

limited

• Slavery was a states’ rights issue

• The 10th Amendment prohibits the federal

government from restricting the rights of
slave-holding states

• Remember: Nullification Crisis

Slavery

Slavery

• Slavery in the United States first began in Virginia during

the Colonial era.

• Cash crop plantations

• As more territory was added to the Union, free states

and slave states fought to gain control of Congress.

• Efforts to resolve the conflict were made in:

• The Missouri Compromise (1820)

• The Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

The Election of Abraham
Lincoln (1860)

THE FINAL STRAW

Election of 1860

• The Nation voted along its sectional lines.

• Northerners voted for Lincoln

• Southerners voted for any candidate

besides Lincoln

• Because the North had a larger

population, Lincoln won

• Southerners did not believe Lincoln was

truly their president

The Secession of the
South

The Secession of the South

•Shortly after Lincoln’s Election, southern states slowly
seceded.

•South Carolina (Dec. 1860) was first to secede

•Followed by:

•Mississippi

•Florida

•Alabama

•Georgia

•Louisiana

•Texas

•Virginia

•Arkansas

•Tennessee

•North Carolina

Argument for Secession

• Southern states feared that

Lincoln would end slavery

• Southern states argued that

the relationship between a
single state and the other
states could be dissolved if a
state chose to do so.

The Confederate States of America

• The Southern States that seceded

formed together to create a
Confederation.

• This Confederation of States is

known as the Confederate States
of America.

• Their President: Jefferson Davis

The South Has Seceded

• https://youtu.be/Hf9B__iYdHQ?si=JNuRYq2oSwsgsQ7K