The South's secession from the union

Intro/Background

• Slavery around long time in USA
• But compromises were always an option
• Compromises ended when tensions rose

Tensions rise

• California Gold Rush 
• State Admission Issues
• Missouri Compromise

the breaking point

• Dred Scott sued for his freedom
• Supreme Court ruled against him
• Unacceptable to the North-Ushistory.org

South Secedes

• The Union was falling apart
• South couldn't handle tensions
• South Carolina seceded-formed Confederacy

The civil war

• Most people thought it would be short
• They were wrong- it went on for 4 years-History.com 
• The most destructive war in the United States
• 618,222 US deaths-historylist.wordpress.com 

Fort Sumter

• Property fights
• South cut it off from supplies
• Supply ships came, South Carolina fired on them
• This began the Civil War

Robert E. lee/Battle of gettysburg

• Joined confederacy out of loyalty to Virginia
• Wanted peace- became military leader of the south
• Fought the North at Pennsylvania, lost miserably
• The South was incredibly weakened

ending the war

• South was too ambitous to keep slavery alive
• Union captured Vicksburg
• Union blocked all southern coasts
• Took control of the Mississippi River
• William Tecumseh ravaged Savannah and Atlanta

ending the war-2

• William took Columbia, shattering South Carolina

Emancipation proclamation

• Lincoln thought slavery needed to be ended
• Felt the south couldn't come back to the Union 
• With his speech, freed most slaves in the US

Assassination of lincoln

• John Wilkes Booth-white supremicist and slavery advocate  
• Thought Lincoln was a Tyrant
• Tried to kidnap him twice but failed
• Decided he must kill him
• Went into the theatre where Lincoln was watching a play

Assassination of lincoln 2

• Shot his pistol 6 inches from Lincoln's head
• Lincoln was taken to a nearby boarding house
• He died the next morning

assassinating the assassin

• John was trapped in a Virginia Tobacco barn
• Soldiers under order not to shoot him
• Decided to burn the barn
• Set it on fire but then the Sergeant shot and killed him
• Taken to a nearby porch where his last words were "Useless ... useless!"

conclusion

• The South was too forceful
• The North was too agressive
• It led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. 

citations

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