2. How did it start?
• There were political tensions between north and south due to the
differences in industrialisation.
• North: very industrialized,with many white immigrants who
brought with them their cultures.
• South: economy based on slavery, tabacco and cotton plantations;
there were 4 million black saves and society was divided the
plantation owners were still linked to the old values of gallantry and
honor.
• The North abolished slavery and criticized the south because they
didn’t do the same so thension begain
3.
4. The war
• In 1860 Abraham Lincon won the presidential elections.
• Soon after the elections 11 southern states guided by
Jefferson Davis formed the Confederate States on America.
• Lincon refused that any American State hade the
constitutional right to withdraw from the Union.
• In 1861 started the civil war, it ended four years later in 1865
when the bluenorthen troops defeated the gray Confederats.
• 5 days later Lincon was assasined by a southern fanatic. (
poet Walt Whitman wrote “O Captain! My Captain!” in his
honor)
5.
6. The result and The
American Dream
• The abolition of savery sanctioned by the 13 th ammendment,
did not grant black people equality of economic security.
• The ‘Ku Klux Klan’ racist movement was bourn, there were
people who resented black people and believed in white
supremacy so they went and terrorised black families.
• Segregation started.
• Northen factories were inriched by the war, thus begain the
myth of the self made man.
• 1866 thr American Federation of Labor was founded (AFL).
7.
8. The gold rush
• In 1848 expansion towards California were
encouragned which resulted in the gold rush.
• In 1862 the Homestead Act granted free soil to
the first occupants.
• The miration led to: the extermination of
buffaloes; starvation/deporttion/extermination
of Native Americans; the “bith” of the
Cowboys.
