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__THE CIVIL WAR __ **By: Haimraj, Freddy, Venessa and Natasha**


 * Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election without being on the ballot in ten of the Southern states. His victory triggered declarations of secession by seven slave states of the Deep South.
 * The South were angered at the attempts by Northern antislavery political forces to block the expansion of slavery into the western territories. Southern slave owners held that such a restriction on slavery would violate the principle of states' rights.
 * Northern factories were producing many of the same goods as the South and Northern politicians were able to pass heavy taxes on imported goods from Europe so that Southerners would have to buy goods from the North.
 * Southerners felt that the Federal government was passing laws, such as import taxes, that treated them unfairly.
 * The South believed that individual states had the right to leave the United States and form their own independent country but most people in the North believed that the concepts of "nullification" and "states' rights" would make the United States a weaker country and were against these ideas.

__Vocabulary For the Civil War __ Law the provided for harsh treatment for escaped slaves and for those who helped them. The Fugitive Slave Act was part of the group of laws referred to as the "Compromise of 1850." In this compromise, the antislavery advocates gained the admission of California as a free state, and the prohibition of slave-trading in the District of Columbia.
 * Fugitive Slave Act: **

** Uncle Tom's Cabin: ** Antislavery novel that was written by harriet beecher stowe. It demanded that the United States deliver on the promise of freedom and equality, galvanized the abolition movement and contributed to the outbreak of the Civil War

This Act set up Kansas and Nebraska as states. Each state would use popular sovereignty to decide what to do about slavery. People who were proslavery and antislavery moved to Kansas, but some antislavery settlers were against the Act.
 * Kansas Nebraska Act: **

The southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861. The confederate States Of America was a government set up from 1861 to 1865 by eleven Southern s lave state that had declared their secession from the United States.
 * Confederate States of America: **

Issued by Abraham Lincoln on Septemeber 22, 1862, it declared that all slaves in the rebellious Confederate states would be free. It declared free all slaves residing in Southern states that were part of the Confederacy. The Proclamation was largely symbolic in value, for it had little immediate effect and included no specific plan for freeing slaves.
 * Emancipation Proclamation: **

__Documents __
 * Question:** What were the causes and effects of the Civil War?
 * Document 1) **


 * A) ** According to this document why should the Us avoid a Civil War?


 * 1B) ** According to the document why is "Cotton the King"?


 * Document 2) **
 * B) ** What is happening to the United States in this image?

//"There was one thing that the white South feared more than negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency."// - W.E.B. Du Bois, 1915
 * Document 3) **


 * C) ** What is W.E.B. Du Bois talking about in the quote that he said above?


 * Document 4) **

__ Sources __
 * D) ** What conflict is the Union facing in this cartoon?
 * Sparknotes.com
 * Google Images