THE CIVIL WAR AND THE CONFEDERACY

Were they Justified Morally in succeeding?

WHO, WHERE, WHEN?

KING COTTON
Invention of the Cotton Gin 1850s- Cotton Production Increased Significantly Largest Export Cash Crop Europe- Britain and France Mississippi was the largest supplier of Cotton

COTTON PRODUCTION 1800-1860

LABOR FOR COTTON PRODUCTION

Who? Slaves! Atlantic Slave Trade The Slave Population rose from nearly 700,000 in 1790 to nearly 4 million in 1860 in the United States. In Lauderdale County-fourteen percent of the total population

was African American Slaves (1818 census)

THE NORTH
The Union Their economy was driven by industry Iron Coal Firearms Shoes, Clothing, etc.

SUPPORTING THE CONFEDERACY

The Confederacy believed that Cotton would support them. They could make it independently. Tried to used King Cotton to persuade France and Britain into helping them in their war efforts Britain and France saw the Confederacy as a rebellion. As two countries who ruled by monarchy, this was not acceptable.

PROPERTY RIGHTS
Southerners saw slaves as their property If the federal government takes away slaves, what other properties will they take away? Alabamas Platform 1848 Radical Southerners Fire-Eaters

Succession?

WILLIAM LOWNDES YANCEY

THE ELECTION OF LINCOLN FINAL STRAW!

State South Carolina Mississippi Florida Alabama Georgia Louisiana Texas Virginia Arkansas North Carolina Tennessee Date of Secession December 20, 1860 January 9, 1861 January 10, 1861 January 11, 1861 January 19, 1861 January 26, 1861 February 1, 1861 April 17, 1861 May 6, 1861 May 20, 1861 June 8, 1861

FIGHTIN JOE WHEELER

CONCLUSION
Why did the production of Cotton increase so much just prior to the Civil War? Why did the South think they could live independently of the Union? Why did the South believe that they needed slavery so badly? What was the Alabama Platform and the Fire-Eaters pushing for?

Do you think the Southern States were justified in succeeded?

SHORT ESSAY
Write a short essay on why or why not you believe that the Southern States were justified in succeeded from the Union.

WORK CITED
http://www.civilwarhome.com/kingcotton.htm Kathleen Collins The Scourged Back (photo) http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h2064 http://www.civilwarhome.com/wheelerbio.htm