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Unit: The Civil War era (1844-1877)

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A house divided against itself cannot stand. The United States could no longer remain half-slave and half-free, and the ensuing war over the fate of slavery ripped apart the nation.

Sectional tension in the 1850s

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The slave economy
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Life for enslaved men and women
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Early abolition
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The Mexican-American War
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The Compromise of 1850
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Uncle Tom's Cabin - influence of the Fugitive Slave Act
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Uncle Tom's Cabin - reception and significance
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Uncle Tom's Cabin - plot and analysis
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act and party realignment
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Bleeding Kansas
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Manifest Destiny: causes and effects of westward expansion
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Sectional conflict: Regional differences
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Dred Scott v. Sandford
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Dred Scott, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, and the election of 1860
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The Civil War

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Slavery and the Missouri Compromise
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Increasing political battles over slavery in the mid-1800s
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Start of the Civil War - secession and Fort Sumter
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Strategy of the Civil War
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Early phases of Civil War and Antietam
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The Emancipation Proclamation
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Significance of the battle of Antietam
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The battle of Gettysburg
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The Gettysburg Address - setting and context
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Photographing the Battle of Gettysburg, O'Sullivan's Harvest of Death
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The Gettysburg Address - full text and analysis
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Later stages of the Civil War - 1863
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Later stages of the Civil War - the election of 1864 and Sherman's March
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Later stages of the Civil War - Appomattox and Lincoln's assassination
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Big takeaways from the Civil War
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Reconstruction

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Juneteenth
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An overview and the 13th Amendment
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Life after slavery for African Americans
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Black Codes
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The First KKK
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The Freedmen's Bureau
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The 14th Amendment
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The 15th Amendment
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The Compromise of 1877
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Failure of Reconstruction
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Comparing the effects of the Civil War on American national identity
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Unit: The Civil War era (1844-1877)

Unit: The Civil War era (1844-1877)

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Sectional tension in the 1850s

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The Civil War

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Reconstruction

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