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8d – Abolitionists and the Women’s Suffrage Movement

The abolitionists worked to end slavery.
• Most abolitionists demanded the
• Abolitionists believed that slavery was wrong
o wrong
o and inhumane
o A violation of the principles of
• Abolitionist leaders included both men and women
• Harriet Tubman
o A on the Underground Railroad
• William Lloyd Garrison
o Editor of an anti-slavery newspaper, known as
o Worked for the immediate
• Frederick Douglass
o Editor of an anti-slavery newspaper, known as
o worked for rights for African Americans and women to

The suffrage movement helped women gain equal rights.

• Supporters declared that all men and are created
• Supporters believed that women were deprived of
o Denied the right to
o Denied opportunities, especially higher education
o Denied equal opportunities in
o Limited rights to
• The movement was led by strong women who began their campaign before the Civil War and
continued after the war had ended
o Isabella (Sojourner) Truth was a former enslaved African American was a nationally
known
o Susan B. Anthony was an advocate to gain voting rights for
and rights for all.
o Elizabeth Cady Stanton played a role in the women’s
rights movement.
USI.9a – Cultural, Economic, Constitutional issues divided the nation
• Cultural, economic, and constitutional differences between the North and South eventually
resulted in the Civil War.
• While there were several differences between the North and the South, the issues related to
slavery increasingly divided the nation and led to the Civil War.
• Because of their cultural differences, people of the North and South found it difficult to agree on
social and political issues

Directions: Complete the chart below. Use the list to help you put the information in the right box.

• Planters were concerned that England • Agricultural society where people

might stop buying cotton from them if
tariffs were added.
• Urban society where people held jobs
• Strong states rights
• Opposed tariffs that would cause prices
of manufactured goods to increase
mostly lived on farms, plantations and
in small villages
• Manufacturing region
• Favored tariffs that protected factory
owners and workers from foreign
competition
• Strong central government

North South

Cultural (society)

Economic (money)

Constitutional
(political)
USI.9b Sectional tensions between the North and South

• The South feared that the North would take control of Congress, and Southerners began to proclaim
states’ rights as a means of self-protection
• The North believed the nation was a union and could not be divided. While the Civil War did not
begin as a war to abolish slavery, issues surrounding slavery deeply divided the nation.

Federal government

1. Southerners believed that they had the power to declare

2. Northerners believed that the national government’s power was over

that of the states.
3. Southerners felt that the abolition of slavery would
.
4. Northerners believed that slavery should be
.
Compromises attempting to resolve the differences

• The Missouri Compromise passed in 1820. Missouri entered the Union as a state.
Maine entered the Union as a state.

• The Compromise of 1850. entered as a free state. Southwest

territories (New Mexico and Utah) would be able to
about the issue of slavery.

• Kansas Nebraska Act passed in 1854. People in the Kansas and Nebraska territories would be able
to decide the slavery issue themselves. This was called
.
Southern secession

• Following Lincoln’s election, the southern states from the Union.

Confederate forces attacked in South Carolina, marking the
beginning of the Civil War.

• Lincoln and many Northerners believed that the United States was
and could not be separated or divided.

• Most Southerners believed that states had freely created and joined the union and could
USI.9d – Important People of the Civil War

• Lincoln and Lee were men who represented views of the nature of the United States that were very
different, leading to an unavoidable conflict.
Directions: Complete the following chart, using the list for help if needed.
• President of the Confederate States of
America
• Urged Southerners to accept defeat at the
end of the war and reunite at the end of
the war
• General of the Union army that defeated
Lee
• Wrote the Gettysburg Address that said
the Civil War was to preserve a
government “of the people, by the people,
and for the people.”
• President of the United States of America
• Leader of the Army of Northern Virginia
• Former slave who escaped to the North and
became an abolitionist
• Opposed secession, but did not believe the
union should be held together by force
• Believed the United States was one nation,
not a collection of independent states
• Skilled Confederate general from Virginia
• Believed the United States was one nation,
not a collection of independent states
• Offered command of the Union forces at
the beginning of the war, but chose not to
fight against Virginia
• Opposed the spread of slavery
• Issued the Emancipation Proclamation

Abraham
Lincoln
(6 bullets)

Jefferson Davis
Ulysses S. Grant

Robert E. Lee
(4 bullets)

Stonewall
Jackson
Frederick
Douglass
USI.9f – Effects of the war on women, soldiers and slaves
Life on the battlefield and on the homefront was extremely harsh. Many died from disease and
exposure.

General effects of the war

• were often pitted against each other

• Southern troops became increasingly and more poorly
.
• Much of the South was devastated at the end of the war. The cities of
and were burned during the war.
• was a major killer
• , a Civil War nurse, created the American
.
• was brutal and often man-to-man.
• Women were left to run in the North and farms and
in the South.
• The collapse of the Confederacy made
worthless.

Effects of the war on African Americans

• African Americans fought in the and armies.
• The often used slaves as naval
.
• The moved to enlist African American sailors early in the war.
• African American soldiers were often paid than white soldiers.
• African American soldiers were against and served in
units under the command of officers.
• , a sailor and later a Union naval captain, was highly honored
for his feats of bravery and . He became a
after the Civil War.