1. The Road to Civil War (1861- 1865) I’ll provide the information, you provide the visuals.

2. Sectionalism Loyalty to one’s geographic region rather than the nation.

3. Early Signs of Sectionalism 3/5 Compromise The Slave Trade Compromise The Northwest Land Ordinance The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

4. Eli Whitney invents the Cotton Gin

5. Sectional Issues Expansion of Slavery Tariffs The National Bank Immigration Federal Road and Canal Construction The “right” of Nullification National Unity v States’ Rights

6. The Middle Passage

7. The Missouri Compromise The first attempt to resolve the issue of the expansion of slavery

8. The Webster- Hayne Debate National Unity vs States’ Rights

9. Henry Clay’s Compromise Tariff Why did the North and South almost split over the tariff issue?

10. Nat Turner’s Revolt

11. The Gag Rule Congress vows not to mention the word slavery

12. Abolitionists- The people who wanted to abolish slavery

13. Manifest Destiny The belief among Americans that the USA was destined to rule from the Atlantic to Pacific Ocean

14. The Mexican War and Cession

15. Why was California becoming a State such a problem?

16. The Compromise of 1850

17. The Fugitive Slave Act

18. Congress helps publish “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” by Harriet Beecher Stowe

19. The Kansas- Nebraska Act

20. Bleeding Kansas

21. Preston Brooks canes Charles Sumner! Back street brawl in Congress!

22. The Free Soil Party becomes the Republican Party A story of how single issue political parties can influence politics in the USA.

23. The Dred Scott Supreme Court Case Did this Supreme Court decision make the Civil War inevitable? Why do some say that this decision was the worst interpretation of the US Constitution ever?

24. The Lincoln- Douglas Debates!

25. John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia

26. The Presidential Election of 1860

27. South Carolina Secedes from the Union!