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In your opinion, was the Civil War inevitable?

Inevitable– unavoidable, certain to happen

The Civil War

Civil WarBetween the same nation

Words to know…

Culture- the behaviors and beliefs of a group.

Visible Culture

Invisible parts of a culture

Facts & Dates

The war lasted from 1861-1865

620,000 Americans died (there were 30,000,000 in America at the time).

What percentage of the population was this?

Now we have 315,000,000 people in the U.S.

What caused the Civil War?

1. Economic and social differences between the North and South2. The election of Abraham Lincoln3. Slavery

A. The growth of the abolition movementB. New states being added to the Union as slave or non-slave

The North and South

A main cause of the Civil War… economic and social

differences between North and South

URBAN- city-like RURAL- country-like

Economic Differences

NORTH– UNION

Manufacturing, workshops and factories

Many railroads and canals to move goods

SOUTH-- CONFEDERACY

Farming and agriculture define the economy

Few rail lines Small farms 1/4 of farmers owned

slaves

Social Differences

NORTH

Urban

SOUTH

Rural

Political SIMILARITIES!

Women, American Indians, and slaves could not vote in the North or the South

A few states allowed free African American men to vote

In 1824 non-property owners gained voting rights

Sectionalism

Strong concern for local interest

The Election of Abraham Lincoln

Southerners feared that Lincoln would abolish slavery because he refused to support the spread of slavery into the Western territories

Slavery

The Southern economy would collapse without slavery

Pro-slavery and anti-slavery advocates came into conflict over new states being slave or free states