UNIT GOAL: Students will be able to analyze how the United States -- intensified by expansion and deepening regional divisions, debates over slavery and other economic, cultural and political issues -- led the nation into civil war.
Civil War causes (according to handout packet): 1) Slavery - moral issue in North vs. defense of expansion in South; 2) Constitutional disputes over State vs. Federal Union rights/powers; 3) Economic Differences - industrialized North vs. agricultural South; 4) Political blunders and extremism
Mexican-American War
Settlement of the West - Free Soil Party, Southern View, Popular Sovereignty
Compromise of 1850
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Southern defense of Slavery (it's good for both the slave and slave master - better than labor-slaves)
Kansas-Nebraska Act, "Bleeding Kansas"
Beating of Charles Sumner in the Senate (by Preston Brooks)
Dred Scott Case
Uncle Tom's Cabin
John Brown
Lincoln-Douglas debates
Panic of 1857
Election of 1860
Session by Southern States
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