Ch 15: The Civil War

Ch 15-1 Texas Secession

Created by Mrs. Phillips

For years, the North and South disagreed on issues such as tariffs, distribution of public lands, states’ rights and slavery.

Tariffs are hurting the

South!

Slavery is just wrong!

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States' rights was the belief that the federal government should not have too much power over the affairs of individual states.

Hey…we’ve got rights

too!!!

Above all the north and south disagreed over slavery

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The Republican Party opposed slavery. Southerners were against the Republican Party because Southerners believed the Party would end slavery, and the Southern way of life.

People who wanted to abolish, or end slavery everywhere were called abolitionists. The Underground Railroad was a huge secret network of abolitionists who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and Canada.

Popular Abolitionist

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One famous abolitionist or “conductor” of the Underground Railroad was Harriet Tubman, a former slave who ran away but continued to help others escape. She was known as the “Moses” of her people.

Do you know why Harriet Tubman carried a pistol? She used to tell her fugitive slaves, “You’ll be free…or DIE!”

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Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a famous novel called Uncle Tom’s Cabin in which she portrayed the horrible evils of slavery

This book contributed to the outbreak of war and helped the abolitionist cause. According to legend, Abraham Lincoln said, "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this Great War!"

During the 1860 presidential campaign, Southerners warned that they would secede, or withdraw from the union if Republican Abraham Lincoln won. When Lincoln won, South Carolina became the 1st state to secede, followed by Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana. www.sonofthesouth.net/slavery/abraham-lincoln...

Republican candidate

Abraham Lincoln

Many Texans urged Governor Sam Houston to issue a call for a convention to consider the secession of Texas. Texans who favored succession met on February 23, 1861 and voted to secede from the US.

The Convention Votes on Secession

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In 1861 Texas joined 10 other Southern states that withdrew from the United States to form the Confederate States of America. Texas became the 7th state to secede.

7th

When the Texas Secession Convention ordered all state officials to take an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy, Sam Houston refused and was removed as governor.

Houston Is Removed and War Begins

“Would you be willing to deluge (flood) the capital of Texas with the blood of Texans, merely to keep one poor old man in a position for a few days longer, in a position that belongs to the people? No!...”

When President Lincoln offered to send federal troops to keep Houston in office, Houston declined:

President Lincoln believed that the Confederate States had no right to leave the Union. Lincoln vowed to preserve the nation and carry out the law of the land in all states.

www.legendsofamerica.com/ah-abrahamlincoln.html

On April 12, 1861, Confederate troops opened fire on U.S. troops at Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, starting the Civil War.

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Bombardment of Ft. Sumter