Unit 6 The Civil War

Objectives
Students will be able to differentiate between the union and the confederacy.
Students will be able to list at least five different abolitionists who contributed to the civil war.
Students will be able to categorize the various events that led to the civil war.

Standards
4-6.1 Explain the significant economic and geographic differences between the North and
South.
4-6.2 Explain the contributions of abolitionists to the mounting tensions between the North and
South over slavery, including William Lloyd Garrison, Sojourner Truth, Frederick
Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Brown.
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.

Tensions Start to
Rise
The North

Geography- mild humid summers

and frozen winters
bays and harbors
inland: rocky soil
Economy- Industrial Revolution: Introduction of the Machine
products were made cheaper and faster
shift from skilled crafts people to less skilled
laborers
Economy BOOST!!!

The South

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Geography- mild short winters; long, hot, humid

summers
swamps and marshes
inland: indigo, tobacco, corn
Economy-Agriculture: Plantations and Slaves
White Southerners made living off the land
Cotton Kingdom
cotton made slavery more
important
cotton spread west, so
slavery increases

Industrial vs. Farming

in the mid-1800s, the economies of many northern states had moved away from farming to
industry. A lot of people in the North worked and lived in large cities like New York,
Philadelphia, and Boston. The southern states, however, had maintained a large farming
economy and this economy was based on slave labor. While the North no longer needed
slaves, the South relied heavily upon slaves for their way of life.
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What would you see in the south?

Bleeding Kansas
The first fighting over the slavery issue took place in Kansas. In 1854, the government passed the Kansas-Nebraska
Act allowing the residents of Kansas to vote on whether they would be a slave state or a free state. The region was
flooded with supporters from both sides. They fought over the issue for years. Several people were killed in small
skirmishes giving the confrontation the name Bleeding Kansas. Eventually Kansas entered the Union as a free state
in 1861.
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Maine
Pennsylvania

Place these states in the right

Category
South

North
Virginia

New York

Georgia

November 6th 1860

Abraham Lincoln Becomes the President of the United
States

Abraham Lincoln was from the North and the south did not want
him to put an end to slavery.
the south had been talking about leaving the United States and
becoming their own country
this is called a succession

December 20th 1860

South Carolina succeeds from the union They decided to make their own country rather than be part of the
USA. Within a few months several other states including Georgia, Mississippi, Texas, Florida, Alabama, and
Louisiana would also leave the Union.
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Confederation

Fredrick Douglas

Abolitionists
Angelina Grimke Weld
Harriet Tubman

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Abolitionist Movement
Abolitionists wanted to end slavery both blacks & whites worked in Abolition Movement
William Lloyd Garrison Liberator (white) Frederick Douglass North Star" (black)
Female abolitionists:
tried to convince lawmakers to make slavery illegal, raised money for suffrage movement
,spoke out against slave beating

The Underground Railroad

a series of escape routes running from South to North travelling by night; hid/rested in stations
and safe houses conductors like Harriet Tubman people who led runaways to freedom

Vocab Terms
Union
Sucession
abolitionists
Bleeding Kansas
Industrial
underground railroad