The Civil War: Causes & Effects
(Lecture Notes from Mr. Kersey's 8th Grade U.S. History Class)Some Long Term Causes
- Slavery
- Economic differences between the North and South
- North - Industry and Trade
- South - Agriculture
- Weak Compromises
- Missouri Compromise
- Compromise of 1850
Some Immediate Causes
- John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry
- Dredd Scott Decision
- Fugitive Slave Act
- The election of Abraham Lincoln
- Secession
Some Effects of the War
- 620,000 dead Americans
- Long term divisions between the North and South
- The Emancipation Proclamation & the eventual end of slavery in the U.S.
- The Southern economy was left ruined, and the South had to be rebuilt.
- The Union was saved.
