Civil War I - Causes

The Civil War II - Causes
Underlying Causes of the American Civil War [STEPS] (Click on the u orange arrows to reveal more information)	Going Deeper The following links will help you widen your knowledge: Basic accounts from BBC Bitesize Voices - IWM YouTube Declaration of War




NB margin order: Top; Right; Bottom; Left IMPACTS OF THE GOLD RUSH egregation In thes. The ideaourt. Economic and Employment Inequality .	Source A Capricious humiliation When did I become an activist? Was it that day when I was twelve years old and bent over to pump air into my bicycle tires at a Gulf station on Terry Road, and a big white guy skipped up from behind and kicked me over? When I turned to ask, ‘Why’ his smug answer, ‘Cause I wanted to’, made a lasting impression... I soon started doing small things to defy the system. Coded message sent 16 January 1917. Source B I spent four years in the Army to free a bunch of Dutchmen and Frenchmen, and I’m hanged if I’m going to let the Alabama version of the Germans kick me around when I get home. No sireebob! I went into the army a nigger; I’m coming out a man. Coded message sent 16 January 1917. Source C If you're white, you're right; if you're brown stick around; if you're black, stay back. A Black folk-saying which featured as a line in Black, Brown and White by Big Bill Broonzy (1946).
What did America contribute to the war effort? [ANSWER] . . . . They point out that: A. O. American Dream Originallfe. Betty. Advertising . The . International Trade The . Aftererica. The . Demand $200. A. The. Government Policy The GI Bership. Truman’s ‘Ft). Presideomics. Massive. After . Increasorce. Industrial modernisation f. Large . Heauticals. Jobs, wages and Unions The growwth. In March 1917 Click here for the interpretation EVENTS – the Political Battle A. H. T. towards Native Americans and Mexicans Kaiser What did America contribute to the war effort? [ANSWER] (Click on the u orange arrows to reveal more information) Sectionalism: North v South ‘Sectionalism’ is putting your region before any other. By 1861, North and South USA had grown into very different places. The North was much more populated, more urban, more industrial – it has as many factories as the South had factory-workers. Its model citizen was the free-born farmer, and its worker, ‘free labor’. There were during reform movements for temperance, public education and the abolition of slavery. The South had fewer people and no large cities. 80% of the population worked on the land, where the economic model was based on the slave cotton plantation. Although only a quarter of the people owned slaves, slavery was vital for Southern society because poor whites measured themselves better than the slaves. At the same time, white Southerners were terrified of a slave uprising. Both were mainly Protestant, both believed in the Constitution and that they best represented the Constitution, and both believed that the other was trying to ‘do them down’. The hatred was mutual; Professor Gary Gallagher comments: “By 1859, a great many people, both North and South, had worked themselves into such a state that compromise would be very difficult if another great crisis did arise”.	Going Deeper The following links will help you widen your knowledge: Basic accounts from BBC Bitesize Voices - IWM YouTube Declaration of War Source B We Coded message sent 16 January 1917. Did You Know The first . Consider: Study Source A and pull out all the different reasons Wilson gives for accepting 'the status of belligerent' (declaring war). Source B Consider: Was America a 'war-winning-weapon'?