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USA History / Mr.Saindon

Monday, April 22
to
Friday, April 26

Causes of the Civil War

Essential Question

What events and/or decisions caused conflict within United States that to led to war?

Objective

a. The students will be able to explain a series of events that led to the Civil War.

Background

Tensions grew for many years before the first shots rang out at Fort Sumter, signaling the beginning of the Civil War. There was a clear division between the north and the south's perspectives of this young country. The Missouri Compromise, The Compromise of 1850, The Dred Scott Decision, John Brown's Raid, Uncle Toms Cabin, and the 1860's election did not occur in a matter of days of each other. These events spanned forty years. To people in the south, those long years of dissatisfaction intensified when Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860. This was a final straw that led to several southern states seceding from the Union.

Sectionalism: The South

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Sectionalism Lesson

As the new American nation moved into its seventh decade of existence it faced several crisis that threatened to tear down the very foundations on which it stood.

Sectionalism plagued the land. Instead of looking at the nation as a whole, regional separatism took hold.

Southerners, westerners and northerners began to identify themselves regionally and not as Americans.

The regional differences that had served to build America now threatened to destroy it.

In this lesson you will be learning about the different sections, or regions, that made up the United States in the 1800’s. The differences between each region, especially the North and South will be one of the causes of the Civil War. As you learn about each region think about the following questions:

● What made this region different from the other two? What was unique about it?

● What would this region be concerned about? What affected them?

● What issues did they have conflicts about?

Google Slide Show: North & South

Sectionalism: The North

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