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Civil War:  The Causes

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UNIT OBJECTIVES:
Summarize how the issue of slavery became more and more politically divisive during 19th century. 

Identify & sequence major events that were contributing  factors toward the tension that was growing between North & South.

Explain how, through compromise, Congress attempted to resolve  the political tensions between North & South. 
 
Assess the impact of the candidacy and election of Abraham Lincoln on sectional strife.

*Use the following links to complete your Causes of the Civil War assignments
Missouri Compromise:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68gi3C0A9Fo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yjx_b5MsFA
http://www.history.com/topics/missouri-compromise

http://www.ushistory.org/us/23c.asp
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3h511.html
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/neh/interactives/sectionalism/lesson1/
http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?title=The_Missouri_Compromise_1820&video_id=235418

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9hQk2Mmpcw

POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY:
http://www.ushistory.org/us/30b.asp
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h228.html

Compromise of 1850:

http://www.history.com/topics/compromise-of-1850
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=327
http://www.ushistory.org/us/30d.asp
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2951.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09YsW2U-7kw

Kansas-Nebraska Act:
http://www.history.com/topics/kansas-nebraska-act
http://www.ushistory.org/us/31a.asp
http://www.historynet.com/kansas-nebraska-act

Bleeding Kansas:
http://www.history.com/topics/bleeding-kansas
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2952.html
http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Bleeding_Kansas

​The Dred Scott Case:
Video overview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j3lKSs2ZoA
PBS Video: http://video.pbs.org/video/2298073069/
The case: http://www.nps.gov/jeff/planyourvisit/dredscott.htm
The case: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2932.html
The decision: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2933.html

John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry

http://www.history.com/topics/harpers-ferry
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2940.html
http://www.wvculture.org/history/jnobrown.html
Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11gevEoaJsk
Video-  http://www.history.com/shows/america-the-story-of-us/videos/john-brown#john-brown
Video- http://www.history.com/videos/john-browns-raid
Video- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB_kbFAui-U
John Brown's Last Speech... Video:
http://www.history.com/shows/the-people-speak/videos/john-browns-last-speech#john-browns-last-speech

ELECTION OF 1860

http://www.270towin.com/1860_Election/
The Candidates: http://civilwardailygazette.com/2010/11/05/presidential-election-of-1860-know-your-candidates/
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGg5uDYHEQA

Attack on Fort Sumter:
http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/fort-sumter.html?tab=facts
http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/fort-sumter

Video:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCoe5T2wmfU
Video:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9p7V7GrHjE
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv-pTU99RcY
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoj_fNAn9OE


Lincoln Resources:
Do you know Lincoln Quiz: 
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/lookingforlincoln/featured/quiz-lincoln-myths-and-misconceptions/77/

Looking for Lincoln documentary:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/lookingforlincoln/featured/watch-looking-for-lincoln/290/


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCOco6-eK8M

MAPS

Missouri Compromise (1820)

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Compromise of 1850

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Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

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ELECTION OF 1860

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