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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.
The History of Cotton in America
Description: This articles discusses the history of colonial America and during the Civil War era
Invention of the Cotton Gin
Description: This page describes the effect of the cotton gin on the future of slavery.
Missouri Compromise
Description: This page describes the Missouri Compromise.
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.
Nat Turner Rebellion
Description: This page describes the Nat Turner Rebellion.
Harriet Tubman and The Underground Railroad
Description: This is a complete biography of Harriet Tubman.
The Free Soilers
Description: This article describes the history and political beliefs of the Free Soilers.
The Know-Nothings
Description: This article describes the rise and fall of the Know-Nothing Party of the mid 19th-century.
Compromise of 1850
Description: This page describes Henry Clay's Compromise of 1850
Radical Versus Moderate Abolitionists
Description: This article describes the differences between moderate and radical abolitionists.
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.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Description: This is the story of Uncle Tom's Cabin and its author, Harriet Beecher Stowe
Ostend Manifesto
Description: This page describes the Ostend Manifesto - which many Northerns considered a Southern conspiracy.
Kansas-Nebraska Act and Bleeding Kansas
Description: This page describes the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act authored by Stephen A. Douglas
Dred Scott Decision
Description: This page describes the Supreme Court's decision against Dred Scott in 1856.
Wilmot Proviso
Description: This page describes the Wilmot Proviso.
John Brown and the Pottawatomie Massacre
Description: This article describes John Brown's Pottawatomie Massacre - the seminal event of Bleeding Kansas.
John Brown Rebellion
Description: This page describes the 1859 John Brown Rebellion against the Federal Arsenal in Harper's Ferry.
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.
The Lincoln-Douglass Debates
Description: This article describes the Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858 throughout the state of Illinois for its Senate seat.
Lincoln's Cooper Union Speech
Description: This article describes the content and significance of Lincoln's landmark Cooper Union speech.
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.
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.
Election of 1860
Description: This page describes Abraham Lincoln's victory in the 1860 Presidential election.
Secession of the Southern States
Description: This page describes the process in which eleven southern states seceded, forming the Confederate States of America.
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.
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.
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