FUNDAMENTAL

UNDERLYING
CAUSES DEVELOP OVER A LONG PERIOD OF TIME
ECONOMICS
STATES RIGHTS
SLAVERY

ECONOMICS IN THE NORTH

THE UNITED STATES HAS MIXED ECONOMIES
SOME ARE AGRICULTURE AND SOME INDUSTRY
BECAUSE OF THE ROCKY SOIL AND COLDER CLIMATE THE NORTH CANT RELY ON
FARMING

THE NORTH HAS TURNED MORE INDUSTRIAL, ESPECIALLY AFTER THE INVENTION OF
THE STEAM ENGINE AND THE FACTORY SYSTEM

THE NORTH HAD AN ADVANTAGE BECAUSE THERE WAS MANY WATERFALLS AND
RIVERS TO POWER THE MILLS

AND FACTORIES

ECONOMICS IN THE SOUTH

oTHE SOUTH HAS FERTILE TOPSOIL AND WARMER CLIMATES WHICH LEANS MORE TOWARDS AN
AGRARIAN ECONOMY

oTOBACCO WAS THE FIRST IMPORTANT CROP OF THE SOUTH

oSOME CASH CROPS ARE CORN, RICE, INDIGO, AND NAVAL STORES
oLATER IN 1790 THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COTTON GIN GREW
oNEXT, COTTON WAS CONSIDERED THE KING

STATES RIGHTS
THE BELIEF THAT THE STATES ARE SOVEREIGN
CAME TO BE THE STATES RIGHTS

SOVEREIGN IS SUBJECT TO NO HIGHER POWER

EXCEPT FOR POWERS SPECIFICALLY GRANTED
TO THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT

SOME BELIEVED SO MUCH IN THE STATES RIGHTS,

SO THEY ARGUED THAT STATES HAD
NULLIFICATION

NULLIFICATION IS THE RIGHT TO DETERMINE IF A

LAW PASSED BY CONGRESS IS CONSTITUTIONAL

OR NOT

SLAVERY
PENNSYLVANIA AND
MASSACHUSETTS WERE THE
FIRST STATES TO
EMANCIPATE (OR FREE)
THEIR SLAVES

LATER NORTHERN STATES

FOLLOWED

THE SOUTH WANTED MORE

SLAVES DUE TO BIG FARMS,
FERTILE TOPSOIL, AND WARM
CLIMATE

IMMEDIATE
CAUSES COME INTO BEING
RAID AT HARPERS FERRY IN VIRGINIA
ABRAHAM LINCOLNS ELECTION
SECESSION OF SOUTHERN STATES

1860S ELECTION
ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND JOHN BRECKINRIDGE WERE RUNNING FOR
PRESIDENT

REPUBLICAN PARTY
GOAL AS PRESIDENT IS TOTAL ABOLISHMENT
HELD ON NOVEMBER 6, 1860
ABRAHAM LINCOLN WON THE ELECTION

SECESSION OF
SOUTHERN STATES
THE NORTH WAS NOT FOR SLAVES
- THEY WANTED TOTAL
ABOLISHMENT
- DIDNT WANT AMERICA
TO BE HALF FREE AND HALF SLAVE

THE SOUTH WAS FOR SLAVES

-NEEDED HELP ON

FARMS

THE SOUTH DID NOT LIKE ABRAHAM

BECAUSE HE WANTED TOTAL ABOLISHMENT

SOUTH CAROLINA, MISSISSIPPI, FLORIDA,

AND ALABAMA SECEDED

GEORGIA LATER SECEDED BECAUSE

ABRAHAM WAS ALLIES WITH THE
NORTHERN STATES DUE TO WANTING
ABOLISHMENT

RAID AT HARPERS FERRY

GOVERNOR BROWN AND HIS MEN WENT TO HARPERS FERRY AND CAPTURED MANY CITIZENS AND
SEIZED THE FEDERAL ARMORY

HE WAS HOPING THE LOCAL SLAVES WOULD JOIN THROUGH THE VICTORY WEAPONS WHICH THEY
WOULD BE SUPPLIED WITH AS WELL AS FREEDOM FIGHTERS WITHIN THE COUNTRY