CAUSES OF

THE CIVIL WAR

Part 4, 26 April 2017
Objectives: Students
will
assess how the election of 1860 led to
secession.
compare the Union and the Confederacy.

Journal:
Imagine you are the leader of a country at
war. What do you need to conduct your war?
What could give you the advantage?
Questions
8. What was Lincoln's response to South
Carolina's movement to secede?
Questions
8. What was Lincoln's response to South
Carolina's movement to secede?
Quick Review: South Carolina claimed that
they could leave the Union, because they
voluntarily joined the Union.
Questions
8. What was Lincoln's response to South
Carolina's movement to secede?
Buchanan said the Union was not a mere
voluntary association of states, to be
dissolved at pleasure by any one of the
contracting parties.
Lincoln said, No State, upon its own mere
motion, can lawfully get out of the Union.
They can only do so against [the] law, and
by revolution.
Questions
8. What was Lincoln's response to South
Carolina's movement to secede?
Buchanan said the Union was not a mere
voluntary association of states, to be
dissolved at pleasure by any one of the
contracting parties.
Lincoln said, No State, upon its own mere
motion, can lawfully get out of the Union.
They can only do so against [the] law, and
by revolution.
In other words: Joining the Union was a
contract and you cant break a contract
because you feel like it.
Questions

9. Describe the Crittenden Plan. Was it

successful?
Questions

9. Describe the Crittenden Plan. Was it successful?

The Crittenden Plan proposed
Reapply and extend the Missouri Compromise
line further west
to allow slavery in all southern territories held
now or acquired hereafter
Make the Missouri Compromise un-repealable
Crittendens plan was rejected by the
Republicans.
Questions

10. What did the states that seceded form?

(Think government.)
The Confederate States of America
Formed in December of 1860 by South
Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama,
Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas
Had their own constitution that guaranteed
the right of citizens to own slaves
Jefferson Davis of Mississippi as president
Union v. Confederacy:
Predict
Recreate the following chart in your notes:

Advantages Disadvantag
es
Union (The
North)
Confederacy

With a partner, predict the advantages

that each side will have in the Civil War.
Union v. Confederacy
Union v. Confederacy
Advantages Disadvantages
Union - Larger population (22 - Would need
(The million) to actively
North) - More money take land
- More factories = (invasion)
more guns, more - Difficulty
goods for military communicatin
use g and
- More food resources transporting
- More horses goods once in
- More railroads / the South
telegraphs - Problems with
- Established generals
government with
army and navy
 Lincolns Generals

Winfeld Scott Ambrose Burnside

Irwin McDowell George McClellan

George McClellan,
Ulysses S. Grant
J oseph Hooker George Meade Again!
 Union v. Confederacy
Advantages Disadvantages
Confedera - Cotton for
cy exports*
- Defending their
homeland
(familiar
territory)
- Excellent
military
leadership^
- Good soldiers^

*Didnt work out

^ The South had military academies, whereas the North did
 ,6 ,1

Stonewall J ackson
Nathan Bedford
Forrest

Robert E. Lee

J ames Longstreet
J eb Stuart
 Union v. Confederacy
Advantages Disadvantages
Confedera - Cotton for - Few factories for
cy exports* producing
- Defending their weapons
homeland - Few railroads
(familiar (hard to move
territory) troops and
- Excellent goods)
military - Small
leadership^ population (9
- Good soldiers^ million)
- Much of
population was
*Didnt work out slaves / poor
- No established
^ The South had military academies, whereas the North did
End of Class

Objectives: Students will:

assess how the election of 1860 led to
secession.
compare the Union and the Confederacy.

Homework: Read ch 16 sec 1 (The War

Begins) and take notes on how the Union
and Confederacy prepared for war.