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The Civil War 1861-1865
Table of Contents
 Vocabulary
 Questions
 Introduction
 The Slavery Issue
 Westward Expansion
 Failure to Compromise
 Southern Secession
 Outcome
 Summary
Vocabulary
 Westward Expansion
 Secession
 Confederacy
 Mason Dixion Line
 Missouri Compromise 1820
 Kanasas-Nebraska Act 1854
 Emancipation Proclamation
Questions
 What were the issues that divided America
during the Civil War?
 Why did the South want a confederacy?
 Why did the North want to end the system
of slavery?
Introduction
North
• Had a nationalist position
• Supported federalism
• Had an economy that
depended on industry
South
• Had a states’ rights position
• Were anti-federalists
• Had an economy that
depended on agriculture
The Slavery Issue
North
• Felt slavery was immoral
• Their economy did not
depend on slavery
South
• Felt slavery was part of
their way of life
• Their economy did
depend on slavery.
Westward Expansion: The nation
growing
North
South
• Felt that the National
government should
determine if new states
would be free or slave states.
• Felt that the new states
should decide if they wanted
to be free or slave states.
Failure to Compromise
The North and South failed at compromising
on the issues that divided them.
The Missouri
The Kansas
Compromise of
Nebraska Act of
1820 established the 1854 changed that
mason dixion line.
an established that
Above the line
the citizens of these
would be free below states would vote on
would be slave.
the slavery issues.
Northerns and
southerners rushed
to vote in these
territories and
ended up clashing
with each other.
Mason Dixion Line
Southern Secession
After the election of Abraham
Lincoln in 1860 South
Carolina was the first of
several southern states that
seceded from the Union.
The South establish their own
government and called it The
Confederacy.
This meant that they broke
away from the rest of the
Nation.
The National government
deemed that this was a
rebellious act and sent in the
military to preserve the
Union.
Confederate Flag
Outcome
The Emancipation
Proclamation in 1863
officially freed the slaves.
The 13th Amendment
established that slavery
was illegal in the
Constitution.
The 14th and 15th
Amendments were
supposed to guarantee
slaves be included in the
Bill of Rights.
The National government
was established to be
more powerful than the
states.
Summary
Was slavery the reason for the Civil War or was
it a final settlement of the dispute between
states’ rights position and nationalist position?
Historians have debated this issue for decades and
have not come to a final determination. Your
job is to choose a side in this debate. Once you
choose a side you must use 3 facts to defend
your position.