Causes of the Civil War

Who was fighting during the Civil War?

• Union vs. Confederacy

• East vs. West

region with many factories

• North

• South

region with many slaves

• North

• South

states where African Americans were free

• North

• South

North

• Union

• Confederacy

South

• Union

• Confederacy

main reason why southern states were angry at abolitionists in northern states

• people in the north were helping slaves escape to freedom

• people in the north were stealing slaves and taking them to Union states

name for people who wanted to end slavery

• abolitionists

• confederates

supported President Abraham Lincoln

• Union

• Confederacy

supported President Jefferson Davis

• Union

• Confederacy