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Causes of the Civil War
Westward Expansion• The Progression of land acquisition in the
United States
Louisiana Purchase:1803
Original Colonies and General Growth
Florida, 1821
N. W. Territory, 1787
Mexican Cession, 1848
Oregon Country 1846
Texas, 1845
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 South’s changing view of slavery
Slavery
• The Underground Railroad
• Debate on how to handle the Free-Slave balance in the Senate with new states.
Politics and Politicians
• South Carolina and the Nullification Crisis of 1832
• 1847 Free Soil Party
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 South’s 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 Google Images
The Progression of Events• The Missouri Compromise of 1820
• Nat Turner’s Revolt 1831
• S. Carolina and the Crisis of Nullification of 1832
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The Progression of Events
• October 1859: John Brown’s raid
on Harper’s Ferry
• November 1860: Abraham
Lincoln wins the election
as a Republican
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