Causes of the Civil War

US History and Gov't


Today you will pretend you are a reporter researching the Causes of the Civil War

Go to the site krugsushistory.blogspot.com

You will be assigned two events, for each you will:

1. Describe the event (year, what happened, who was involved)
2. Describe how the action of people or government led to the Civil War or further separating society
3. Describe how the people of the North reacted and People of the South
4. Was there a peaceful solution


Websites you can choose from


Dred Sott Case
http://library.wustl.edu/vlib/dredscott

www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2933.html

www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/scott/


Kansas Nebraska Act

http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/biography6text.html

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h84.html

http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=661


John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry

http://www.wvculture.org/History/jnobrown.html

http://www.civilwarhome.com/johnbrown htm

http://history.furman.edu/benson/docs/jbmenu.htm




Compromise of 1850

http://www.mce.k12tn.net/civil_war/compromise_of_1850.htm


http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Compromise1850.html




Choose two political cartoons:

web.li.gatech.edu/.../write/civwar/causes.html

http://popartmachine.com/search/Political%20cartoons%201850 lots of cartoons from 1850's



This site has brief summary on the causes between the North and South in economy religion

Need to scan in FORM OF DIFFERENT SOCIETIES


http://www.historyplace.com/civilwar/index.html


Political Cartoons

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~cap/SCARTOONS/car1860.html

www.boondocksnet.com/cartoons

This site contains cartoons from the Mexican American War to the Civil War, choose two cartoons from numbers 16-18. Pick two cartoons and tell them about them.




1. Describe the cartoon—(who are the characters in the cartoon)


2. What is the author’s purpose in this cartoon? (who is he demonizing?)

3. What symbols or emotions is he using?