1. 8-4.3Analyze key issues that led to South Carolina’s secession from the Union, including the nullification controversy and John C. Calhoun, the extension of slavery and the compromises over westward expansion, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Dred Scott decision, and the election of 1860.

2. Key Vocabulary: Westward Expansion Missouri Compromise
Nullification Crisis
Protective Tariff
John C. Calhoun
Andrew Jackson
South Carolina Exposition & Protest
States’ rights
Nullifiers
Unionists
Force Bill
Mexican War

3. Key Vocabulary: Compromise of 1850 Fugitive Slave Law
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Kansas Nebraska Act
“Bleeding Kansas”
Dred Scott Decision
John Brown
Election of 1860
Republicans
Free Soil

4. Key Concepts
The nullification crisis was the result of the impact the protective tariff had on the north and the south.

5. John C. Calhoun declared that it was the state’s right to declare such a law (protective tariff) unconstitutional and nullify it if the law hurt the state.

6. One result of the Mexican War was the extension of slavery
One result of the Mexican War was the extension of slavery. The slavery debate continued as the country expanded westward.

7. Other disagreements over slavery due to westward expansion resulted in divisive events such as the Missouri Compromise, the Kansas – Nebraska Act, and the Dred Scott Decision.

8. South Carolina seceded following the Election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860.

9. Guiding Questions for Reading Like a Historian
Discussion Prompts
Was John Brown a “misguided fanatic”?
Contains Timeline, 3 Documents, and guided questions
Interactive on the causes of the Civil War
Questions and dialogue as the interactive continues

10. SAS Curriculum Pathways QL#1337
Recipe For War-Power Point
Was Lincoln a Racist?
Documents and questions about Lincoln’s view