Causes of The Civil War Graphic Organizer: Term/ Event Description of Issue Southern / Northern View
Causes of The Civil War Graphic Organizer: Term/ Event Description of Issue Southern / Northern View
Causes of The Civil War Graphic Organizer: Term/ Event Description of Issue Southern / Northern View
Directions: Using the text and the workbook, read about each issue/ event. Be sure to describe each as well as the N and S views (support or oppose). DO NOT
copy word for word from the book. Be sure to summarize in your own words!
congress admitted California as a free state and declared the north gain the most. The balance of the Senate
was now with the free states, The victory for the
the unorganized western territories free. south was the Fugitive Slave Law. In the end, the
Compromise of 1850 north refused to enforce it.
the law required the northern states to return escaped South was spreading slavery through federal
coercion and force regardless of the Northern
slave to their owners in the south. voters. In many Northern towns, slave catchers
Fugitive Slave Act were attacked, and set free captured fugitives.
allowed previous free and unorganized territories of line was now open to popular sovereignty. The
North was angry. The Kansas-Nebraska act made it
Kansans and Nebraska to chose whether or not they
possible for the Kansas and Nebraska territories
should have slavery. (shown in orange) to open to slavery. The Missouri
Kansas Nebraska Act
Compromise had prevented this from happening
since 1820.
Dred scott was a slave and lived with his master for two Southerners wanted to extend slavery throughout
the nation and ultimately rule the nation itself.
years and his master died so he became a free slave in Southerners approved the Dred Scott decision
The Dred Scott Decision actuality the supreme court made the decision that no believing Congress had no right to prohibit slavery
African american could not be a US citizen so therefore in the territories.
he was still a slave.
Term/ Event Description of Issue Southern /Northern View
The issue of slavery was adding new land. The issue with The South seceded over states' rights. Confederate
states did claim the right to secede, but no state
state rights was they were being violated by the federal claimed to be seceding for that right. In fact,
Slavery & States’ Rights government. Confederates opposed states' rights that is, the
right of Northern states not to support slavery
He led a small army of 18 men into the town of -intensified southern resentment
Harpers Ferry and attacked a federal arsenal.He plans toward the abolitionist movement
John Brown’s Raid on -
Harpers Ferry to give arms to the slaves and insight of rebellion.
Abe Lincolin won the election. the republicna South Carolina's Declarations established precedent
and unabashedly claimed that the primary reason
candidates were running on the free soil platform. for secession remained the refusal of northern
Election of 1860 states to comply with the Fugitive Slave Act and the
Dred Scott (1857) decision.
Tax on imported products American industry.tax hurt the industrial north supported it but
farmers who had to pay more money for goods. the agricultural south opposed.
Protective Tariff
Book published in 1852 by Harriet Stowe that increased the differences between the North and
the South. Many Northerners realized how unjust
captured the homer of slavery. promoted effect on slavery was for the first time. With increasing
Uncle Tom’s Cabin attitudes toward African americans. opposition to slavery, Southern slave owners
worked even harder to defend the institution.