The American Civil War

BY GREER KILLMAN
 EQ: What are the causes and
effects of the American Civil War?
Before the Civil War: Slavery

 Early 1800s- most controversial

movement is to end slavery
 North: indifference and support of
abolition
 South: depended on slavery to
maintain their way of life
Before the Civil War: Sectionalism
 Sectionalism: loyalty to one’s own
region
 North’s interest: Factories
 South’s interest: Agriculture
 North opposed slavery
 South feared abolition would end
their way of life
Before the Civil War: States’
Rights
 North: preferred a strong federal
gov
 South: preferred strong individual
states’ rights
 John C. Calhoun defended the
South’s states’ rights:
Equal rights in the territories
Return of fugitive slaves
Guarantee of a balance of power
Before the Civil War: Secession

 Secession: Breaking away from the

Union
 Started by Southern leaders
 South Carolina: first state to secede
 February1861: The Confederate States of
America were formed
 Confederate president: Jefferson Davis
Before the Civil War: Presidential
Election of 1860

 Abraham Lincoln vs. Stephen

Douglas
 Lincoln
believed slavery was
morally wrong
 Lincoln won the election of 1860
After the Civil War

 Main focus: rebuilding and reuniting

 Era of Reconstruction
 1865-1877
 The Union wins
 Slavery is ended
After the Civil War: Social Effects
 Discrimination, segregation, and
racism
 1866, KKK started by Confederate veterans
 Black codes passed in the South
 Freedmen’s Bureau: help, protection,
and education for freed African
Americans
 Death as a result of war
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died
After the War: Economic Effects

 The South in ruins

 Confederate money is worthless
 Two-thirds transportation
destroyed
 The Panic of 1873
Dozens of small banks close
Stock market drops quickly
After the War: Political Effects

 Radical Republicans gain control

 Fourteenth Amendment
 Fifteenth Amendment
 African
Americans in politics: legislators
and administrators
 The Compromise of 1877
Standards and Resources
Standard 4-6: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the
causes, the course, and the effects of the American Civil War.
4-6.3 Explain the specific events and issues that led to the Civil War,
including sectionalism, slavery in the territories, states’ rights, the
presidential election of 1860, and secession.
4-6.5 Explain the social, economic, and political effects of the Civil War on
the United States.

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