Conflict and Compromise What was the conflict It

Conflict and Compromise

What was the conflict? • It was not slavery alone…. . – This was about politics – With the Louisiana Purchase came the decision about creating new slave states – Southerners were against Federal Government involvement in tariffs. – They also believed in only expressed rights.

Roots of Conflict • Farming– North switched from tobacco to grain – Eili Whitney invented the cotton gin – North moved toward manufacturing and immigrant labor – North wanted free labor in new states and wanted to pass laws – South wanted states rights protected and slavery protected as well.

What was the plan? • Missouri Compromise – Tell me why the South did not agree?

Compromise of 1850 • Admitted California as a Free State • New governments would let the people decide the issue • D. C. must prohibit slave trade • U. S. Marshals must help recapture fugitive slaves • How does this end?

Kansas-Nebraska Act • Kansas and Nebraska were added and allowed to decide on the slavery issue • This led to Bleeding Kansas, John Brown, and Dred Scott.

War…. Civil War • April 12, 1861 confederates fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina. • Lincoln called for volunteers and 3 mores states joined the Confederacy

Major Battles • Bull Run, Shiloh and Antietam, and finally Gettysburg. • Over 50 thousand died at Gettysburg alone. • Some statistics say that over 30% still had the bullet in their guns. • Listen to the address……

Social and Economic Battles • Emancipation– South had seceded so what did this mean? – 1862 Lincoln signed first draft of Emancipation Proclamation – Read quote on page 177

New Roles • First example of women stepping up like they would for wars yet to come. – – Nurses Farms Factories Even government positions

Road to Surrender • Scorched Earth Policy – All is fair in love and war – Grant ordered generals to burn everything. – Confederate troops and civilians began to starve. – 1 in 3 Confederate soldiers died in the war. – 360, 000 Union and 260, 000 Confederate soldiers died.

Lincoln • Main goal was always to preserve the union • He promised to heal wounds and deal with the South with compassion • He died 5 days after the South Surrendered.