The Road to Civil War (1861-1865)

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The Road to Civil War (1861-1865)

• Ill provide the information, you provide the
  visuals.

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Sectionalism

• Loyalty to ones geographic region rather than
  the nation.

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Early Signs of Sectionalism

• 3/5 Compromise
• The Slave Trade Compromise
• The Northwest Land Ordinance
• The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

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Eli Whitney invents the Cotton Gin
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Sectional Issues

• Expansion of Slavery
• Tariffs
• The National Bank
• Immigration
• Federal Road and Canal Construction
• The right of Nullification
• National Unity v States Rights

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The Middle Passage
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The Missouri Compromise

• The first attempt to resolve the issue of the
  expansion of slavery

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The Webster- Hayne Debate

• National Unity vs States Rights

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Henry Clays Compromise Tariff

• Why did the North and South almost split over the
  tariff issue?

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Nat Turners Revolt
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The Gag Rule

• Congress vows not to mention the word slavery

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Abolitionists- The people who wanted to abolish
slavery
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Manifest Destiny

• The belief among Americans that the USA was
  destined to rule from the Atlantic to Pacific
  Ocean

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The Mexican War and Cession
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Why was California becoming a State such a
problem?
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The Compromise of 1850
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The Fugitive Slave Act
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Congress helps publish Uncle Toms Cabin by
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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The Kansas- Nebraska Act
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Bleeding Kansas
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Preston Brooks canes Charles Sumner!

• Back street brawl in Congress!

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The Free Soil Party becomes the Republican Party

• A story of how single issue political parties can
  influence politics in the USA.

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The Dred Scott Supreme Court Case

• Did this Supreme Court decision make the Civil
  War inevitable?
• Why do some say that this decision was the worst
  interpretation of the US Constitution ever?

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The Lincoln- Douglas Debates!
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John Browns Raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia
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The Presidential Election of 1860
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South Carolina Secedes from the Union!