The+Nation+Splits+Apart

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__**Lessons:**__ Election of 1860

__**MA Learning Standards:**__


 * USI.35** Describe how the different economies of the North and the South contributed to the growing importance of sectional politics in the early 19th century.

A. the Missouri Compromise (1820) B. the South Carolina Nullification Crisis (1832–1833) C. the Wilmot Proviso (1846) D. the Compromise of 1850 E. the publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s //Uncle Tom’s Cabin // F. the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) G. the Dred Scott Supreme Court case (1857) H. the Lincoln-Douglas debates (1858) I. John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry (1859) J. the election of Abraham Lincoln (1860)
 * USI.36** Summarize the critical developments leading to the Civil War. (H)


 * USI.37** On a map of North America, identify Union and Confederate States at the outbreak of the war. (H, G)