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Civil War - Causes

This section contains colorful and descriptive narratives of the major causes of the Civil War.

Slavery

Description: This page describes the "peculiar" institution of slavery from the Northern and Southern perspectives.

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

The History of Cotton in America

Description: This articles discusses the history of colonial America and during the Civil War era

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

Invention of the Cotton Gin

Description: This page describes the effect of the cotton gin on the future of slavery.

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

Missouri Compromise

Description: This page describes the Missouri Compromise.

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

Manifest Destiny

Description: This page describes the concept of manifest destiny and how it was used to justify expansion throughout the continent, and the expense of Native Americans and other nations.

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

Nat Turner Rebellion

Description: This page describes the Nat Turner Rebellion.

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

Harriet Tubman and The Underground Railroad

Description: This is a complete biography of Harriet Tubman.

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

The Free Soilers

Description: This article describes the history and political beliefs of the Free Soilers.

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6, 7

The Know-Nothings

Description: This article describes the rise and fall of the Know-Nothing Party of the mid 19th-century.

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 6, 7

Compromise of 1850

Description: This page describes Henry Clay's Compromise of 1850

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

Radical Versus Moderate Abolitionists

Description: This article describes the differences between moderate and radical abolitionists.

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6, 7

The Tale of Two Abolitionists: Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison

Description: This article describes the different ideologies of two prominent figures within the abolitionist movement: Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison.

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6, 7

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Description: This is the story of Uncle Tom's Cabin and its author, Harriet Beecher Stowe

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

Ostend Manifesto

Description: This page describes the Ostend Manifesto - which many Northerns considered a Southern conspiracy.

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

Kansas-Nebraska Act and Bleeding Kansas

Description: This page describes the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act authored by Stephen A. Douglas

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

Dred Scott Decision

Description: This page describes the Supreme Court's decision against Dred Scott in 1856.

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

Wilmot Proviso

Description: This page describes the Wilmot Proviso.

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

John Brown and the Pottawatomie Massacre

Description: This article describes John Brown's Pottawatomie Massacre - the seminal event of Bleeding Kansas.

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6, 7

John Brown Rebellion

Description: This page describes the 1859 John Brown Rebellion against the Federal Arsenal in Harper's Ferry.

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

The Caning of Senator Sumner

Description: This page describes the vicious beating of Charles Sumner at the hand of Preston Brooks in the United States Senate in 1856.

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6

The Lincoln-Douglass Debates

Description: This article describes the Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858 throughout the state of Illinois for its Senate seat.

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6, 7

Lincoln's Cooper Union Speech

Description: This article describes the content and significance of Lincoln's landmark Cooper Union speech.

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6, 7

The Partisan Politics of the Civil War Era

Description: This article describes the prominent parties that shaped the political landscape of the Civil War era.

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6, 7

The Republican National Convention of 1860

Description: This article describes Abraham Lincoln's improbable selection at the landmark Republican National Convention of 1860 in Chicago.

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6, 7

Election of 1860

Description: This page describes Abraham Lincoln's victory in the 1860 Presidential election.

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

Secession of the Southern States

Description: This page describes the process in which eleven southern states seceded, forming the Confederate States of America.

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

The Border States: To Secede or Not to Secede?

Description: This article provides information on the four border states of the Civil War: Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, and Missouri.

Type: Historical Profile or Biography Narrative

Format: Online Activity

Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6, 7

Civil War Causes Reading Comprehension Bundle

Description: This packet contains eight reading comprehension passages and question sets based on various causes of the Civil War such as Slavery, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, John Brown Rebellion, and others.

Type: Printable Units

Format: Printable Activity

Grade Levels: 5, 6

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