12/5/06 Notes Period Five

Today in class we viewed a video called "Causes of the Civil War". It was largely a review of the material we've covered leading up to the Civil War. Events of note

• The North and South split was due to differences in slavery, the North was pro and the South against.
  
• The Northerners wanted slavery to expire on its own, but the introduction of Eli Whitney's cotton gin caused its resurgence.
• Abolitionists led the fight against slavery. William Lloyd Garrison protested its practice publicly, and Frederick Douglas as an ex slave wrote a widespread memoir.
  
• Nat Turner's Rebellion killed 61 whites, and was the start of paranoia of Southerners fearing a slave attack.
  
• Free blacks and other abolitionists helped to organize the Underground Railroad to help slaves escape the South. Harriet Tubman was one of its main "conductors".
  
• The Missouri Compromise, penned by Henry Clay, stopped the expansion of slavery Northward.
  
• "Bleeding Kansas" brought North and South opposition face to face, as both of them fought to insure that Kansas was a slave/non slave holding state, depending on their position.
  
• The Supreme Court ruling in the Dred Scott Case further divided North and South, as it made slaves "property" and opposed their freedom.
  
• When Lincoln makes the Oval Office, eight states secede, and by Spring 1861, the Confederate States of America had been formed.
  
• The CSA attack on Fort Sumter then was the match that lit the powder keg to start the Civil War.
  

We also received an Essay Data Key Sheet due on Friday 12/8/06.