TX History: Causes of the Civil War

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CAUSES OF THE
AMERICAN WAR

Multiple Choice

Why did the Southern states want to keep slavery?

• For economic gain due to free labor

• To work in the factories

• To work in the New Jersey canal

• They did not want to keep slavery

Multiple Choice

From the previous graph which region depended on slavery?

• North

• South

• West

Multiple Choice

What is urbanization?

• People moving to the cities

• People moving to the country

• People moving to a new state

• People moving to a new country

Multiple Select

What was the economy of the North? (Select all that apply)

• Fishing

• Shipping

• Lumber

• Agriculture

• Manufacturing

Multiple Choice

Why was agriculture the main economy of the South?

• Because of the unfertile soil

• Because of the windy beaches

• Because of the rich, fertile soil

• Because of the rocky, sandy soil

Multiple Choice

What is another word for the country?

• Rural

• Suburbs

• Cities

• Urbanization

KANSAS NEBRASKA ACT 1854

▪ May 30, 1854 – The Kansas Nebraska

Act REPEALED the Missouri
Compromise.

▪ Created two new territories Kansas

and Nebraska.

▪ Allowed for POPULAR

SOVOREIGNTY or for the people to
vote on whether or not they wanted
to be a slave state or free state.

▪ This led to Bleeding Kansas

BLEEDING
KANSAS

▪ Serious of violent events that took place in

the Kansas territory.

▪ Why?

▪ Kansas could vote on whether or not they

wanted slavery. People rushed to cause
chaos and vote.

▪ Slavery vs anti-slavery

JOHN BROWN

▪ October 16-18, 1859 Harpers Ferry, Virginia.

▪ ABOLITIONIST John Brown leads a small group

of men and slaves to capture an arsenal of weapons known as Harper Ferry's Raid

ELECTION OF 1860

▪ Abraham Lincoln becomes the 16th president of the United

States.

▪ Lincoln is anti-slavey

▪ The southern states do not like what Lincoln is trying to do,

so they SECEDE.

▪ South Carolina becomes the 1st state to secede in 1860.

▪ Texas becomes the 7th state to secede in 1861.