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TOPIC 8 PDF
SECTIONALISM and  CIVIL WAR​

Assignments
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8.1 Conflicts and Compromises
8.2 Growing Tensions
8.3 Division and Outbreak of War
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          Civil War Readings
          Division
         BIOGRAPHY:  Stephen Douglas
          PRIMARY SOURCE: Excerpts from the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
          PRIMARY SOURCE: Response to the Fugitive Slave Act
          PRIMARY SOURCE: John Brown's Last Speech to the Virginia Court When
               About to Receive the Sentence of Death
          PRIMARY SOURCE: Lincoln's House Divided Speech
​          PRIMARY SOURCE: Stephen Douglas's Chicago Speech of 1858
          PRIMARY SOURCE: Charles Sumner on the Crime Against Kansas
         
          Secession
          PRIMARY SOURCE: Union Dissolved Broadside
          ACTIVITY: Analyzing Confederate Secession - complete online
          PRIMARY SOURCE: Alexander Stephens Cornerstone Speech
          PRIMARY SOURCE: Mississippi Declaration of Secession
          PRIMARRY SOURCE: Jefferson Davis Political Cartoon
          PRIMARY SOURCE: Dis-United States Political Cartoon
          PRIMARY SOURCE: Political Cartoon - The Folly of Secession
​          ART: Painting of the Attack on Fort Wagner, SC

           A Civil War Who's Who
         Thomas Stonewall Jackson
          Jefferson Davis
          William Tecumseh Sherman
          Clara Barton
          William H. Carney

          A Soldier's Life

          Letter from Sgt. Fletcher of the Mass. 54th Regiment

          "A Soldier's Poem" or "Lines on the Death of My Friend"

          Excerpt from Reflections on the Civil War by Bruce Catton
          Sullivan Ballou Letter

          Life on the Homefront
          Diary of Sarah Morgan Dawson

          Primary Source - Letter from Abraham Lincoln to the King of Siam
         
          Political Cartoon - The Old Bulldog on the Right Track
          Primary Source - "To Arms!" Poster

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