What caused the civil war?

By: Justin Lindsey, Chris Maldonado, Dylan Stillwagon,

Marshall Massey

Slaves

• Slaves were abused in the south and the north wanted to free them.

• Also the north used factories instead of slaves to do their work because slaves were used to grow cotton and they were too expensive.

The north

• The north used white people in factories because they were less expensive than slaves. And slaves grew cotton which they needed land for.

The south

• The south used slaves to grow cotton for money instead of factories.

• They made more money but it was harder to grow because slaves were expensive.

Bleeding Kansas

• Abolitionists and slave owners went to Kansas to vote on slavery.

• James brown went to Kansas and killed slave owners with his kids and gave his slaves that he freed guns.

Abraham Lincoln

• He was born in Illinois.

• He was elected and most of then southern states seceded.