CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR
1. Slavery - 25% of Southerners owned slaves
2. Our Founding Fathers thought slavery would go away - 3/5s Clause
3. Eli Whitney and the cotton gin - Slave owners could make a lot of money
4. President John Tyler - Chose John C. Calhoun as Secretary of State, Calhoun believed slavery was his moral duty to protect and take care of African-americans
5. President James K. Polk - Added the Oregon and California Territory
6. North and South began to argue if the new territory should be free or slave, U.S. had Missouri Compromise, but changed to Popular Sovereignty (vote on free or
slave)
7. Kansas-Nebraska Territory - Voting led to chaos, two governments in 1 territory and John Brown
8. Charles Sumner and Preston Brooks - Sumner hero in North, Brooks hero in South
9. Dred Scott Decision - The Supreme Court ruled that Dred Scott was property
10. Lincoln-Douglass Debate (1858) - Lincoln made Douglass, slavery, and the South look bad, so the South promised they would never vote for Douglass in the
presidential election - If Lincoln won the South promised to leave
11. Harper’s Ferry - John Brown tried to start a slave revolt
12. Fugitive Slave Laws - Took away Constitutional Rights for all African-Americans
13. Uncle Tom’s Cabin - Explained how slavery made good people do bad things and slavery separated families
14. Election of 1860 - Lincoln won and the South left
THE CIVIL WAR
1. Leaders of the North
2. Leaders of the South
3. Advantages and disadvantages of the North and South
4. First modern war - new technology to kill more people
5. Fort Sumter - first battle
6. Battle of Bull Run - people from Washington D.C. ended up in the battle
7. McClellan was slow!
8. Battle of Antietam - Bloodiest day in American military history
9. Emancipation Proclamation - freed the slaves in the South
10. Battle of Fredericksburg - General Burnside had the North run across an open field, while the South was in trenches
11. Battle of Chancellorsville - North lost, but Stonewall Jackson died
12. Battle of Gettysburg - three day battle and the North won, General Lee attacked the North to try and steal supplies
13. Gettysburg Address - Lincoln freed the slaves and changed the focus of the war to “all men are created equal”
14. Battle of Shiloh - General Grant had to hear the wild pigs
15. Grant captured Jackson and Vicksburg, Mississippi - this cut off the trade route for the South
16. The Wilderness Campaign - Grant caught up with Lee in the forest, the fighting caught the trees on fire
17. African-American troops - Fighting for freedom and had a higher causality rate
18. Sherman’s March - made a path through the South and destroyed everything inhis way
19. Appomattox Courthouse - this is the final surrender
20. Same family’s at Bull Run and Appomattox
21. Huge death toll
22. Arlington Cemetery - U.S. National Cemetery now, was once Robert E. Lee’s house and land
1. Slavery - 25% of Southerners owned slaves
2. Our Founding Fathers thought slavery would go away - 3/5s Clause
3. Eli Whitney and the cotton gin - Slave owners could make a lot of money
4. President John Tyler - Chose John C. Calhoun as Secretary of State, Calhoun believed slavery was his moral duty to protect and take care of African-americans
5. President James K. Polk - Added the Oregon and California Territory
6. North and South began to argue if the new territory should be free or slave, U.S. had Missouri Compromise, but changed to Popular Sovereignty (vote on free or
slave)
7. Kansas-Nebraska Territory - Voting led to chaos, two governments in 1 territory and John Brown
8. Charles Sumner and Preston Brooks - Sumner hero in North, Brooks hero in South
9. Dred Scott Decision - The Supreme Court ruled that Dred Scott was property
10. Lincoln-Douglass Debate (1858) - Lincoln made Douglass, slavery, and the South look bad, so the South promised they would never vote for Douglass in the
presidential election - If Lincoln won the South promised to leave
11. Harper’s Ferry - John Brown tried to start a slave revolt
12. Fugitive Slave Laws - Took away Constitutional Rights for all African-Americans
13. Uncle Tom’s Cabin - Explained how slavery made good people do bad things and slavery separated families
14. Election of 1860 - Lincoln won and the South left
THE CIVIL WAR
1. Leaders of the North
2. Leaders of the South
3. Advantages and disadvantages of the North and South
4. First modern war - new technology to kill more people
5. Fort Sumter - first battle
6. Battle of Bull Run - people from Washington D.C. ended up in the battle
7. McClellan was slow!
8. Battle of Antietam - Bloodiest day in American military history
9. Emancipation Proclamation - freed the slaves in the South
10. Battle of Fredericksburg - General Burnside had the North run across an open field, while the South was in trenches
11. Battle of Chancellorsville - North lost, but Stonewall Jackson died
12. Battle of Gettysburg - three day battle and the North won, General Lee attacked the North to try and steal supplies
13. Gettysburg Address - Lincoln freed the slaves and changed the focus of the war to “all men are created equal”
14. Battle of Shiloh - General Grant had to hear the wild pigs
15. Grant captured Jackson and Vicksburg, Mississippi - this cut off the trade route for the South
16. The Wilderness Campaign - Grant caught up with Lee in the forest, the fighting caught the trees on fire
17. African-American troops - Fighting for freedom and had a higher causality rate
18. Sherman’s March - made a path through the South and destroyed everything inhis way
19. Appomattox Courthouse - this is the final surrender
20. Same family’s at Bull Run and Appomattox
21. Huge death toll
22. Arlington Cemetery - U.S. National Cemetery now, was once Robert E. Lee’s house and land