Growth of a Nation:

The War Between the States

By Lorrie Felts

Table of Contents

• Differences between the North and South

• Changes and conflicts prior to the war

• Election of 1860

• The Confederacy: A Divided Union

Differences

divide the

North and South

North

Lots of people

Jobs in towns and cities

Factories

Change is happening quickly

South

Farming remained popular

Many small farms

Some huge plantations

Rich soil and warm weather

Eli Whitney

Invented the cotton gin in 1793

Cotton gin removed the seeds

Cotton prepared faster

More cotton to market

faster

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Change and Conflict

Western states: free states or slave states

More land to grow cotton

Harriett Tubman and The Underground Railroad

Henry Clay works on compromises

Election of 1860

Douglas vs.

Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Tall, thin man from the frontier

Wore plain, dark clothes

Not well known outside Illinois

Slavery: a question of right or wrong

Slavery should not spread

Stephen Douglas

Heavy, and a foot shorter than Lincoln

Well educated

Wore fine clothes

Serving in the Senate

Well known

Each new state should decide

about slavery

South Carolina Seceded

November 6, 1860

Lincoln won the election

December 20, 1860

South Carolina seceded

The ConfederacySix other states followed South Carolina

Mississippi

Florida

Alabama

Georgia

Louisiana

Texas

Jefferson Davis

Mississippi senator

Became the

president of the

Confederacy

Union Divided

Abraham Lincoln is president

of the North

Jefferson Davis is president

of the South

April 12, 1861 the battle began

BibliographyEarly United States: Harcourt Brace Social

Studies (2000).Orlando, FL: Harcourt Brace.

Lincoln Lincoln SC Map Davis

Sound Cannon Flags Tent

Douglas Cannons Eli Whitney Background