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I. Pre-Civil War--Causes

I. Pre-Civil War--Causes. 1. Western Lands. Treaty of Paris of 1783. A. Louisiana Purchase. 1. Purchased by Jefferson. 2. More than doubled the size of the U.S. Lewis & Clark sent to explore and to find a Northwest Passage. Their expedition opened the way for settlement.

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I. Pre-Civil War--Causes

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  1. I. Pre-Civil War--Causes 1. Western Lands

  2. Treaty of Paris of 1783

  3. A. Louisiana Purchase 1. Purchased by Jefferson 2. More than doubled the size of the U.S. • Lewis & Clark sent to explore and • to find a Northwest Passage • Their expedition opened the way for • settlement

  4. 5. How to organize all this land?

  5. B. Northwest Territory & Land Ordinance of 1787 • Divided the new lands into territories • Provided a democratic model for national expansion

  6. Announced that the U.S. would not only be settling west of the original 13 colonies but that it would eventually become states. (Treaty of Paris; 1763 & 1783) • Accelerated westward expansion (Manifest Destiny)

  7. 2. Industrial Revolution

  8. A. Interchangeable Parts & Mass Production • 1. Interchangeable parts & Mass production • 2. Jefferson’s “Damn-bargo” (1807) and then the War of 1812 brought about a halt in trade • 3. They needed goods that didn’t need to be imported; the Industrial Revolution began in the U.S.

  9. Slater’s Mill on the Blackwater River 4. Samuel Slater started the First successful mechanized Textile factory in America.

  10. B. Cotton Engine or ‘Gin’ • Developed by Eli Whitney in 1793

  11. FYI: Rosetta Stone found in 1799

  12. C. Cotton Production • i. Short-staple cotton vs. long-staple (piedmont vs. tidewater farmers) “Cotton is King”

  13. ii. Production increased 500% per worker

  14. iii. The need for slave labor increased • Cotton is labor intensive—even with the cotton gin. • As demand increased, labor had to increase to meet demand. • The more cotton you could produce the more money you could make.

  15. As the demand for cotton increased more and more farmers started to grow it and cotton farms steadily spread Farmers would grow cotton until their field gave out and then move to another field. Because of this, A LOT of land was needed iv. The need for land increased

  16. v. Westward Expansion • Farmers can’t go eastward, so they go west. • They run into the frontier and the Northwest Land Ordinance • Previously semi-deserted territories quickly become populated and some are soon ready to apply for statehood.

  17. 3. Missouri Compromise of 1820

  18. A. Missouri applies for statehood as a slave state • B. Threatens the balance in congress—11 free states and 11 slave states already exist • C. Henry clay proposes: • i. Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state • ii. Louisiana Territory split: above the 36 30’ north latitude slavery is illegal; below slavery is legal—except Missouri

  19. 4. Addition of Texas

  20. 5. Comp. Of 1850

  21. a. background • I. By 1849 California’s population exceeds 100,000 people • II. Applies as a free state • III. Disruption erupts again (most of California is below the 36 30’ line) • IV. Henry Clay thinks he has solved the issue forever this time with the 1850 compromise—but it isn’t passed

  22. Compromise • I. Proposed by Stephen A. Douglas • II. California as a free state • III. Utah and New Mexico to decide themselves (popular sovereignty) • IV. Trading of slaves—but not slavery—banned in D.C. • V. Stricter fugitive slave law

  23. 6. Fugitive Slave Laws/Personal Liberty Laws

  24. I. Fugitive Slave Laws • a. Slaveholders or their agents could seize a slave in the North for return • b. Slaves were not entitled to a trial by jury or to testify on their own behalf • c. Federal marshals had to help in the recapture of slaves • d. Anyone found helping an escaped slave was fined $1,000 and/or imprisoned for 6 months. • e. Effect: increased abolitionist feelings in the North.

  25. II. Personal Liberty Laws • A. Passed in the North to combat the Fugitive slave laws • B. Forbid state officials from assisting in captures • C. Activated Abolistionists in the North. • Uncle Tom’s Cabin written by Harriet Beecher Stowe

  26. 7. Influential People

  27. A. Published an abolitionist paper in the North Wanted slaves freed—thought they were entitled to the same rights as all other Americans I. William Lloyd Garrison

  28. One of the lead “conductors” on the Underground Railroad She later became an ardent speaker for the abolitionist movement II. Harriet Tubman

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