American Civil War

To the Civil War
Civil War Causes:
Expansion of slavery
Representation
Mexican War &
Wilmot’s Proviso
Free Soil Party

Compromise of 1850:
Clay vs. Douglas
Vs Missouri Compromise
Popular sovereignty
Competition vs. parallel development
California
Calhoun & Concurrent Majority
Fugitive Slave Law
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Destruction of Whig Party
Filibustering
Kansas-Nebraska 1854
Breaking of Missouri Compromise
Anti-Nebraska Party
Northern party
Violence: John Brown

Republican Party & implications of 1856
1857: Dred Scott
Federal union & its powers
Citizenship
1860 Lincoln
Who was Abraham Lincoln
Moral antislavery
Southern Claims:
Representation & slavery
Secession

WAR:
Analogies to 1776
Independence
Population & industry
Southern military
Why did north win?
Did the North need the South?
Maclellan vs. Howe brothers
Ideology: the Battle Hymn of the Republic
Contest for the North
Confederate Battles
Significance of Gettysburg
Emancipation
Grant & Sherman
Reconstruction:
The South
The Union
13th, 14th, 15th amendments
Compromise of 1877