11/12 Some Events to Get you Started

Here is a list to get you started with your causes/events.

1. Different Economies: industry v. agriculture, taxes/tariffs, labor forces
2. Opposing Social Views: social classes, etc.
3. Slavery
4. Dred Scott Decision
5. Frederick Douglass
6. Nat Turner Rebellion in 1831
7. Fugitive Slave Act
8. Compromise of 1850
9. Uncle Tom’s Cabin published
10. King Cotton….Christy publishes proslavery Cotton is King
11. Election of Lincoln in 1860
12. Abolitionists
13. Mass. Senator Sumner v. S. Carolina Senator Butler
14. Emancipation Proclamation
15. Missouri Compromise of 1820
16. Kansas/Nebraska Act…Bleeding Kansas
17. States’ Rights v. Federal Govt.
18. Land from the Mexican American War & Louisiana Purchase
19. John Brown (all inclusive of what he was involved in)
20. The South Secedes