T TARRIFS I INDUSTRY amp AGRICULTURE S SLAVERY S SECTIONALISM U UNCLE TOMS CABIN E ELECTION OF 1860 S SECEDE TARIFFS taxes on imports and exports The North favored tariffs and the South hated tariffs ID: 568545
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Causes of the Civil War: TISSUES
T: TARRIFS
I: INDUSTRY & AGRICULTURE
S: SLAVERY
S: SECTIONALISM
U: UNCLE TOM’S CABIN
E: ELECTION OF 1860
S: SECEDESlide2
TARIFFS
taxes on imports and exports. The North favored tariffs, and the South hated tariffs. Slide3
INDUSTRY & AGRICULTURE
The North had manufacturing, businesses, factories and banking. The South had farming, plantations, cash crops, and slave labor. Slide4
SLAVERY
The South had slavery for their farms, and the North had abolitionists.
Abolitionists: people who work to stop the practice of slaverySlide5
SECTIONALISM
Loyalty to local interests, values, customs, life styles, and political values of one’s own region, instead of National concerns. Slide6
UNCLE TOM’S CABIN
Anti-slavery book by Harriet Beecher Stowe that changed how Americans viewed slavery (the system that treated people as property), and tried to get people to support the
North/abolitionists
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ELECTION OF 1860
Abraham Lincoln, the nominee of the Republican Party, opposed slavery. He won the election and pushed the deep South toward secession. The South felt the government was becoming too strong. Slide8
SECEDE
Southern states leave to form their own country.
South
Carolina as the first to leave the Union and form a new nation called the Confederate States of America. Four months later, six other states seceded (Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, and Louisiana). Later, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee joined them. The people of these states elected Jefferson Davis as President of the Confederacy.