3.20.14 Events Leading Up to the Civil War

Objective: Historians of 2018 will describe the events leading to an increased tension between the North and South leading up to the Civil War

Task 1: Increasing Tensions: Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), and the Dred Scot Case (1857)

• Open today's reading (do not make a copy)

Task 2: Videos

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Dred Scott Supreme Court Case

Dred Scott (Hip Hughes)

Additional Resources:

• Missouri Compromise (Education Portal)
• Compromise of 1850  (Education Portal) 
• Dred Scott (National Park Service)
• Harriet  Beecher Stowe Center 

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