civil war tissues

Causes of the Civil War:
TISSUES

■T: TARIFFS
■I: INDUSTRY & AGRICULTURE
■S: SLAVERY
■S: SECTIONALISM
■U: UNCLE TOM’S CABIN
■E: ELECTION OF 1860
■S: SECEDE

TARIFFS

■taxes on imports and exports.

The North favored tariffs, and
the South hated tariffs.

INDUSTRY & AGRICULTURE

■The North had manufacturing,

businesses, factories and banking.
The South had farming, plantations,
cash crops, and slave labor.

SLAVERY

■The South had slavery for their farms,

and the North had abolitionists.
– Abolitionists: people who work to stop the

practice of slavery

SECTIONALISM

■Loyalty to local interests, values,

customs, life styles, and political
values of one’s own region, instead of
National concerns.

UNCLE TOM’S CABIN

■ Anti-slavery book by Harriet Beecher Stowe

that changed how Americans viewed slavery
(the system that treated people as property),
and tried to get people to support the
North/abolitionists.

ELECTION OF 1860

■ Abraham Lincoln, the nominee of the

Republican Party, opposed slavery. He won the
election and pushed the deep South toward
secession. The South felt the government was
becoming too strong.

SECEDE

■ Southern states leave to form their own country.

– South Carolina as the first to leave the Union and form a new

nation called the Confederate States of America. Four months
later, six other states seceded (Georgia, Florida, Alabama,
Mississippi, Texas, and Louisiana). Later, Virginia, Arkansas,
North Carolina, and Tennessee joined them. The people of
these states elected Jefferson Davis as President of the
Confederacy.