Causes of the Civil War

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Objective

I can describe one cause of the Civil War.

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Key concepts

3 concepts

  1. 1

    Before the Civil War, some states in the North had stopped allowing slavery, but states in the South wanted to keep it.

  2. 2

    Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860, and soon after, some states left the United States to form their own country called the Confederacy.

  3. 3

    The Civil War started when soldiers in South Carolina attacked Fort Sumter in 1861.

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Practice

6 questions

1

What was one major issue that caused conflict between the Northern and Southern states?

2

What happened to the Whig party because of the slavery issue?

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Exit ticket

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Name one thing that caused the Civil War.

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