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Chapter 8: Sectional Conflict Intensifies --Causes of the Civil War--

Chapter 8: Sectional Conflict Intensifies --Causes of the Civil War--. Sections 2 & 3: Crisis & Division . Republican Party. Created by: Whigs Free – soil Party Antislavery Democrats Started because of: Hatred of the Kansas – Nebraska Act Wanted to keep slavery out of the west

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Chapter 8: Sectional Conflict Intensifies --Causes of the Civil War--

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  1. Chapter 8: Sectional Conflict Intensifies--Causes of the Civil War-- Sections 2 & 3: Crisis & Division

  2. Republican Party • Created by: • Whigs • Free – soil Party • Antislavery Democrats • Started because of: • Hatred of the Kansas – Nebraska Act • Wanted to keep slavery out of the west • Against Slavery

  3. Election of 1856 • Who ran: • John C Fremont – (Republican) • James Buchanan – (Democratic) • Wanted concessions for the south • Millard Fillmore – (American Party) • Buchanan Won

  4. Senator of Illinois

  5. Dred Scott Decision • Case: • Scott and his slave owner moved to a free state (Illinois) making him a free man. Then they moved back to Missouri and he was thrown back into slavery ?????????? • Supreme Court Ruling: • Against Scott • African American were not citizens therefore could not sue

  6. John Brown’s Raid • Was an Abolitionistwho developed a plan to seize the federal arsenal @ Harpers Ferry Virginia and free and arm slaves to begin a rebellion …….. • Buchanan sent the Marines (Lee) to put down Rebellion • Brown will be captured & put to death • Becomes a martyr for the anti –slavery movement

  7. Saint?

  8. OR Tyrant?

  9. The South secedes • After Lincoln wins election: • South Carolina leave the Union • Followed by - Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas leaves • Created: • The Confederate states of America “The Confederacy”

  10. The Confederate states of America • President: • Jefferson Davis

  11. The Border States ?????? • Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to serve in army for 90 days • Caused problem in: • Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Arkansas didn’t want to seceded but had no choice ……… • Lincoln refused to loose: • Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware

  12. Boarder States Social Issues • Guerrilla Warfare • Wars outside of the battlefield, taking place between citizens! • Boarder State’s Friction---most common places for Guerrilla Warfare to take place! MOST FAMOUS STATES: KANSAS and MISSOURI WHY? Kansas-Nebraska Act causes Bleeding Kansas

  13. Guerrilla’s of Missouri/Kansas William Quantrill Confederateguerrilla leader during the American Civil War. After leading a Confederate bushwhacker unit along the Missouri-Kansas border in the early 1860s, which included the infamous raid and sacking of Lawrence, Kansas in 1863.

  14. Guerrilla’s of Missouri/Kansas William Anderson AKA ‘Bloody Bill’ one of the deadliest and most brutal pro-Confederateguerrilla leaders in the American Civil War. Anderson led a band that targeted Union loyalists and Federal soldiers in Missouri and Kansas.

  15. Guerrilla’s of Missouri/Kansas Jesse and James Frank • In the summer of 1863, the James farm was brutally attacked by Union soldiers. • Jesse was 16 when he and Frank became Confederate guerrilla soldiers, riding alongside William Quantrill and “Bloody Bill” Anderson. • Was his brutality provoked? Or was it just waiting to surface? Did the Civil War create a generation of murders without a honest cause?

  16. Did the Civil war allow for the creation of a new generation of psychopaths or allow them to come out of hiding? • ‘Jayhawks’ ,‘Bushwackers’, ‘Boarder Ruffians’ fighting for a ‘cause’??? • Jayhawkers—Created by Bleeding Kansas-- free-state cause? • Border Ruffians -pro-slavery forces that crossed over from Missouri • Bushwackers-- Generally part of the irregular military forces on both sides. While bushwhackers conducted a few well-organized raids in which they burned cities, most of the attacks involved ambushes of individuals or families in rural areas • http://www.history.com/shows/brad-meltzers-decoded/videos/brad-meltzers-decoded-billy-the-kid?m=5189717d404fa&s=All&f=3&free=false#

  17. Causes of the civil war • Economic and social differences between the North and the South • States versus federal rights • The fight between Slave and Non-Slave State Proponents • Growth of the Abolition Movement • The election of Abraham Lincoln!!

  18. Fort Sumter • Location: South Carolina • Lincoln planed on resupplying the fort • Davis attacks before supply gets there • Wants federal troops out of the south • The confederacy bombarded the fort for 33 hours • Beginning of the Civil War

  19. America The Story of US-Division • http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=america+the+story+of+us+episode+4&qs=n&form=QBVR&pq=america+the+story+of+us+episode+4&sc=4-33&sp=-1&sk=#view=detail&mid=94B2755958BCC1C51EB394B2755958BCC1C51EB3

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