1. AS AMERICA REVISION
2017

2. dates
It is CRUCIAL that you know the dates of key events across the course… but why?
‘The North and South had more in common by not c.1845’
‘By 1845, the Missouri Compromise was ineffective in maintaining peace’
‘Economic differences were the major cause of division between the North and South by 1850’
‘Bleeding Kansas’ was the most significant event in the de-stabilisation of relations between the North and South in the years 1850 to 1856.’

3. THE BIG PICTURE – THE CIVIL WAR
Necessary Preconditions
Developing Causes
Trigger Cause

4. KEY PEOPLE Presidents Polk Taylor Fillmore Pierce Buchanan Lincoln
North or South
Key beliefs
Key Events
KEY PEOPLE
Presidents
Polk
Taylor
Fillmore
Pierce
Buchanan
Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
Other
Henry Clay
John Calhoun
Daniel Webster
William Seward
John Brown
Charles Sumner