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Why Did the American States Want to Split?
The North
The north was trying to stop the south from trying to leave the union because they wanted to keep slavery and the north did like that.
The North
- New technologies
- Cars, roads, trains, and such
- Were spreading across America
- Northerners took advantages of such things
- Business men influenced these developments and were major players
- They thought America was growing in industrialization, yet the South was refusing to accept these new ways
- Thought that if slavery were abolished, then it would force the south to industrialize their lands
Info
- Many more people in north
- 7 of 8 immegents went to north
- Better job opportunities
- Workers in south went to 70% then to 40% of origination numbers
- 800,000 people in NYC
- Biggest city in US
- Better transportation in north
- Higher chance that northern children went to school opposed to south
- Mostly were republican
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was a lawyer, legislator, and opponent of slavery. He was elected 16th president of the United States on November 1860 shortly before the Civil War. Lincoln proved to be a good military strategist and a good leader
The Abolitionists
Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses Grant (1822-1885) commanded the Union army during the American Civil War and served as the 18th U.S. president from 1869 to 1877.
Person
The South
World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted
The South
- Lifestyle was based in agriculture
- Became rich by owning large plantations as families
- Grew cash crops
- Crops such as tobacco, cotton, rice, indigo, etc.
- Were able to sell these and make great money
- Bought and owned slaves to work the plantations
- Had been living like this for many years
- Thought slavery was okay
- Had lived like this for many years
- Believed that it was God's punishment for the Africans
- Believed that they had made a promise to the slave traders to keeps the slaves
- Both reasons were excuses to northerners who were trying to get them to stop slavery
Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis was a politician who served as the president of the Confederate States. Davis’s view about slavery and expansion was a dedicated supporter of the Southern position on slavery and its expansion into new states.
Key People
Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Lee was a Confederate general for the South during the Civil War. He fought against the Union forces during the war's Antietam and Gettysburg, before losing to Union General Ulysses S. Grant in 1865.
Another
More Info
- Vast farmland
- 1/3 of southerners owned a slave
- Though ratio of 4 million : 5.5 million :: blacks : whites
- No major industrial cities
- Bad transportation
- 35% of train tracks in US were in south
- Mostly were Democrats
More Info
The Conflict
- Differences
- North didn't like the agricultural ways of the south
- South didn't like the industrial ways of the north
- Had different geography
- Generally had different religious, political, and moral beliefs
- Not having slavery would...
- Be fine for the industrial north
- DEVASTATE the agricultural south
- Abraham Lincoln was elected president
- Supported the north, for the most part
- Didn't want slavery
- Was going to abolish slavery
The South's Response
South
- Separation
- As the government was telling them to stop having slaves
- They wanted to keep their slaves
- They didn't agree with the north in general
- If they created their own government, then. . .
- They could keep slavery
- They could make their own rules based on their views and beliefs
- They could keep their ways and not be forced into industrialization and the northern ways
The North's Counter Response
North
- WAR!
- Felt it was their duty to preserve the union
- Otherwise it would be 'betraying' their government and founding fathers
- The south would have continued their ways of slavery
- The south still wouldn't be industrialized
- Declaring war and winning the war would force the south to stay apart of the union
- And so they did
Conclusion
Conclusion
Sources
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/north-and-south#:~:text=All%2Dencompassing%20sectional%20differences%20on,on%20the%20issue%20of%20slavery.
https://www.ukessays.com/essays/history/reasons-the-north-opposed-slavery-history-essay.php#:~:text=The%20reality%20is%20that%20the,of%20a%20new%20American%20ideology.
Sources
Q: should the South be allowed to split away from the North?
A: Figure it out!
A Question
DEBATE
Now we are going to split off into two groups, where you will argue about the topic question.
We have already distributed the roles amongst you, so you may now look at your cards and see what your role is.
Go get with your groups (North on the window side of the room, South on the other). You have the rest of class to discuss your arguments and reasoning with your team, and tomorrow we will actually have the debate.
(NOTE: because of controversy, keep the discussion off of slavery as much as possible, as to not offend people.)