The Road to the Civil War

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The Road to the Civil War

• The US-Mexico War, 1846-8
• Gold Rush, Migration and Expansion
• Compromise of 1850
• Uncle Toms Cabin, 1852
• Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854
• Bleeding Kansas, 1854-6
• Dredd Scott Decision, 1857
• John Browns Raid on Harpers Ferry
• 1860 Presidential Election

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The Road to the Civil War

• Manifest Destiny and War expanded the US to the
  Pacific Ocean
• Westward Expansion of Slavery after US-Mexico War
• Debates over slavery in the West ripped the
  country apart
• Ideologies of states rights
• Polarized the North South
• No common ground in political parties

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The Election of 1860

• Slavery on trial
• Nationalism
• Meaning of America?
• States-Federal Gov.?
• John Brown
• Distrust
• Democrats crumbled
• Lincoln (R) won

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The South Seceded, 1861

• South Carolina first
• Propaganda
• MISS, FL, AL, GA, LA, TX
• Confederate States of America
• President Jefferson Davis