1. American History I 12/4
Grab a Knights Charge and a map from the white table at the front of the room

2. Yesterday’s Questions of the day…
Why did Americans start moving west? What motivated them?
How did we acquire the land west of the Louisiana Purchase?
What issue kept coming up as new states were admitted into the union and how did we “fix” it?

3. Key Events Leading to the Civil War

4. Question of the Day…
Why did the South and the North grow further apart during the 1850’s?

6. 1850s - Key events leading to war
1.Uncle Tom's Cabin
2. Kansas-Nebraska Act
3. Raid on Harper's Ferry
4. Dred Scott v.
Sandford Decision

7. Uncle Tom’s Cabin Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852
Book strongly criticizes the institution of slavery
North and South grow farther apart

8. Kansas-Nebraska Act Created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska
Said that slavery was to be decided by popular sovereignty
Act undid the Missouri Compromise
Proposed by Stephen Douglas

9. Popular Sovereignty
Letting the people decide on an issue

10. Bleeding Kansas
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery groups violently fought over if Kansas was to be a free state or slave state

11. Those in Kansas who fought for Kansas to be a free state were known as…