1. Causes of the Civil War

2. Westward Expansion The Progression of land acquisition in the United States Louisiana Purchase:1803 Original Colonies and General Growth Florida, 1821 N. W. Territory, 1787 Mexican Cession, 1848 Oregon Country 1846 Texas, 1845

3. Westward Expansion The Missouri Compromise of 1820 The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 and Bleeding Kansas Google Images

4. Slavery The abolitionism movement in the North –Women in the abolition movement Nat Turner Rebellion of 1831 and the South’s changing view of slavery

5. Slavery The Underground Railroad Debate on how to handle the Free-Slave balance in the Senate with new states.

6. Politics and Politicians South Carolina and the Nullification Crisis of 1832 1847 Free Soil Party

7. Politics and Politicians The Emergence of the Republican Party Preston Brooks beats Charles Sumner in the Senate chamber after Sumner denounced the Kansas-Nebraska Act Google Images

8. Economics 1793 Eli Whitney and the Cotton “Gin” –Implications to the South’s Economy Cash Crops and the need for labor in the South –Cotton, Sugar, Rice Google Images

9. Economics The Northern U.S.’s economy –Focus on industrialization The Panic of 1857 –Increase of sectional tension Google Images

10. The Progression of Events The Missouri Compromise of 1820 Nat Turner’s Revolt 1831 S. Carolina and the Crisis of Nullification of 1832 Google Images

11. The Progression of Events October 1859: John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry November 1860: Abraham Lincoln wins the election as a Republican AltaVista Images