Causes of the Civil War
This issue caused the biggest disagreement between the North and South before the Civil War.
What is slavery?
Abraham Lincoln was elected president in this year.
What is 1860?
Fort Sumter was located in this Southern state.
What is South Carolina?
This was the year Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is 1863?
Southern states feared Lincoln would stop slavery from spreading into these new areas.
What are the territories in the West?
Southern states reacted to Lincoln's election by doing this.
What is seceding/leaving the Union?
Supplies like food were running low at Fort Sumter, causing Lincoln to send these.
What are supply ships/reinforcements?
The Emancipation Proclamation declared freedom for enslaved people in these states.
What are Confederate states/rebellious states?
Many Northerners believed slavery was morally wrong, while many Southerners believed it was necessary for this part of their economy.
What is farming/plantation agriculture/cotton production?
Southerners believed Lincoln's election meant they were losing this in the federal government.
What is political power/influence?
After Fort Sumter, several more Southern states decided to join this side in the Civil War.
What is the Confederacy/the Confederate States?
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do to the Confederacy's labor force?
What is because it weakened the Confederacy by taking away enslaved labor which hurt their farms, production, and war support system?
This law required escaped enslaved people to be returned to their enslavers, even if they were found in free states.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Lincoln promised not to end slavery where it already existed, but he wanted to prevent it from spreading to these areas.
What are new territories in the West?
Lincoln's handling of Fort Sumter was designed to avoid this diplomatic consequence while still reasserting federal authority.
What is recognizing Confederate independence?
How did enslaved people respond after hearing about the Emancipation Proclamation?
Explain why slavery increased sectional conflict between the North and South.
What is because the North and South had different economies, beliefs, and political goals involving slavery?
Why did many Northern voters support Lincoln even though Southern states strongly opposed him?
What is because many Northerners wanted to stop the spread of slavery and keep the Union together?
Why did both the Union and Confederacy believe controlling Fort Sumter was important?
What is because it represented power, control, and authority over the South and the Union?
Why didn't the Emancipation Proclamation immediately free all enslaved people?
What is because it only applied to Confederate states still in rebellion?