Causes of the Civil War T TARRIFS TISSUES
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Causes of the Civil War: ■ T: TARRIFS TISSUES ■I: INDUSTRY & AGRICULTURE ■S: SLAVERY ■S: SECTIONALISM ■U: UNCLE TOM’S CABIN ■E: ELECTION OF 1860 ■S: SECEDE
TARIFFS ■taxes on imports and exports. The North favored tariffs, and the South hated tariffs.
INDUSTRY & AGRICULTURE ■The North had manufacturing, businesses, factories and banking. The South had farming, plantations, cash crops, and slave labor.
SLAVERY ■The South had slavery for their farms, and the North had abolitionists. – Abolitionists: people who work to stop the practice of slavery
SECTIONALISM ■Loyalty to local interests, values, customs, life styles, and political values of one’s own region, instead of National concerns.
UNCLE TOM’S CABIN ■ Anti-slavery book by Harriet Beecher Stowe that changed how Americans viewed slavery (the system that treated people as property), and tried to get people to support the North/abolitionists.
ELECTION OF 1860 ■ Abraham Lincoln, the nominee of the Republican Party, opposed slavery. He won the election and pushed the deep South toward secession. The South felt the government was becoming too strong.
SECEDE ■ Southern states leave to form their own country. – South Carolina as the first to leave the Union and form a new nation called the Confederate States of America. Four months later, six other states seceded (Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, and Louisiana). Later, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee joined them. The people of these states elected Jefferson Davis as President of the Confederacy.
