Introduction to Causes of the Civil War

Causes of the Civil War - Use the link to answer the following questions.

https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/american-civil-war-history#section_1

In the mid-19th century, while the United States was experiencing an era of tremendous growth, a fundamental economic difference existed between the country’s ________ ___ _________regions.

Causes of the Civil War - Use the link to answer the following questions.

https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/american-civil-war-history#section_1

What led southerners to fear that the existence of slavery in America—and thus the backbone of their economy—was in danger?

Causes of the Civil War - Use the link to answer the following questions.

https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/american-civil-war-history#section_1

Explain the difference in the economies of the north and south pre-Civil War

(do not just copy and paste)

https://guides.loc.gov/missouri-compromise#:~:text=In%20an%20effort%20to%20preserve,Maine%20as%20a%20free%20state

What was the Missouri Compromise?

It was declared Unconstitutional in what Supreme Court Case?

What did that ruling say?

https://www.history.com/topics/19th-century/bleeding-kansas

What was "Bleeding Kansas" and why are these events significant to the Civil War?

https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/american-civil-war-history#section_1

The abolitionist John Brown’s raid at Harper’s Ferry in 1859 convinced more and more southerners that ....

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/dred-scott-case

Watch the video and respond to these questions in paragraph form.

Where did Dred Scott file for freedom and what year?

Who else filed and who was she and what was her name?

The decision came back how many years later and what year?

Explain "once free always free"

The Dred Scott case had three main parts....what were those 3 parts?

What was the "human triumph" at the end of the Dred Scott story?

https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/american-civil-war-history#section_1

In 1854, the U.S. Congress passed this act ............? What was the purpose of the act?

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-african-slave-ship-arrives-jamestown-colony

According the the linked article, “20 and odd” Angolans,kidnapped by the Portuguese, arrive in the British colony of Virginia and are then bought by English colonists. What year did this happen?

• 1619

• 1691

• 1720

• 1598

Which was a cause of the Civil War?

• Slavery - Slavery is a condition in which one human being was owned by another. A slave was considered by law as property, or chattel, and was deprived of most of the rights ordinarily held by free persons.

• State's Rights - The Southern states wanted to assert their authority over the federal government so they could abolish federal laws they didn't support, especially laws interfering with the South's right to keep slaves and take them wherever they wished.

• Sectionalism -

  is the idea that individual communities of people, sharing a set of cultural, economic and geographic realities, create individuated sections and loyalties within a larger polity, and it existed long before and continued long after the Civil War

• All of the above