A Divided Nation

Separation & Compromise

Secession

 

Who Am I?

Events

100

Slavery, Cultural, Economic and Constitutional Issues

That national government’s power was supreme over the states.

Lincoln’s election

Frederick Douglass

First Battle of Manassas (Bull Run)

200

North was mainly urban, south was mainly agricultural.

That they had the power to declare any national law illegal.

Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter, SC.

Jefferson Davis

The signing of the Emancipation Proclamation

300

They protected factory owners and workers from foreign competition.

1820 – Missouri was a slave state, Maine a free state.

Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, N. Carolina, S. Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, VA

Ulysses S. Grant

Gettysburg

400

Planters were concerned about price increases of manufactured goods, afraid England would stop buying cotton if tariffs were added.

California was a free state – the southwest territories would decide on their own.

Delaware, Kentucky,

Maryland, Missouri

Robert E. Lee

Vicksburg, Mississippi River

 

500

States rights vs. a strong central government

The people decided the slavery issue

“popular sovereignty”

California, Conn., Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Mass., Michigan, Minn., N. Hamp, N. Jersey, N.York, Ohio, Oregon, Penn., Rhode Isl., Vermont, W. Va, Wisc.

Abraham Lincoln

April 1865 at Appomattox Courthouse

 

 

Final Question:  Ports and rivers provided transportation for troops and supplies.