Causes of the Civil War

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Causes of the Civil War
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Westward Expansion

• The Progression of land acquisition in the United
  States

N. W. Territory, 1787
Oregon Country 1846
Louisiana Purchase1803
Mexican Cession, 1848
Original Colonies and General Growth
Texas, 1845
Florida, 1821
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Westward Expansion

• The Missouri Compromise of 1820
• The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 and Bleeding
  Kansas

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Slavery

• The abolitionism movement in the North
• Women in the abolition movement
• Nat Turner Rebellion of 1831 and the Souths
  changing view of slavery

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Slavery

• The Underground Railroad
• Debate on how to handle the Free-Slave balance in
  the Senate with new states.

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Politics and Politicians

• South Carolina and the Nullification Crisis of
  1832
• 1847 Free Soil Party

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Politics and Politicians

• The Emergence of the Republican Party
• Preston Brooks beats Charles Sumner in the Senate
  chamber after Sumner denounced the
  Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Economics

• 1793 Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
• Implications to the Souths Economy
• Cash Crops and the need for labor in the South
• Cotton, Sugar, Rice

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Economics

• The Northern U.S.s economy
• Focus on industrialization
• The Panic of 1857
• Increase of sectional tension

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The Progression of Events

• The Missouri Compromise of 1820
• Nat Turners Revolt 1831
• S. Carolina and the Crisis of Nullification of
  1832

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The Progression of Events

• October 1859 John Browns raid
• on Harpers Ferry
• November 1860 Abraham
• Lincoln wins the election
• as a Republican

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