Causes+and+Reforms

=Causes of the Civil War and U.S. Reform Movements 1848-1860.=

=Link to Mission U.S. Flight to Freedom Simulation:= Mission U.S. Flight to Freedom

=__Background__=

__**William Wilberforce- Amazing Grace Movie Excerpt on the Abolition of Slavery in the British Empire in 1833**__

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=__**Politics: Compromises and Conflicts from Missouri to the Election of 1860**__= Abraham Lincoln Crossroads - Simulation of Lincoln's Decisions from 1854-1864 PBS- Judgement Day Resources- Africans in America Series- Great Index to Primary Sources from 1831-1865 House Divided-America in the Age of Lincoln

of the Changing Balance of Free and Slave States/ Territories 1783-1861 Building a More Perfect Union (U.S. Capitol Visitor's Center Online Exhibit)- INTERACTIVE TIMELINE

=__**EVENTS**__= Fugitive Slave Act of 1850- The primary source document in its entirety. 1852 Uncle Tom's Cabin... Uncle Tom's Cabin E-Text( Multi-Media online exhibit with link to the full online text of Uncle Tom's Cabin) Uncle Tom- Harriet Beecher Stowe media type="custom" key="25758834" __**Death of Uncle Tom Scene from the Theatre Adaption of Uncle Tom's Cabin**__ media type="youtube" key="vr1C07FxRe8" width="560" height="315" 1854 Kansas Nebraska Act 1857 Dred Scott Decision __**1858 Lincoln Douglas Debates**__ 1858 Lincoln-Douglas Debates Key Quotes from the Debate- Highlights Lincoln Home National Park Service- Full Texts of Each Debate

media type="custom" key="25763034" __**//1859 Oberlin-Wellington Slave Rescue//**__ Oberlin-Wellington Slave Rescue and Trial Newspaper Accounts of the Slave Rescue Trial Oberlin College Online Exhibit John Brown's Holy War- PBS __**Election of 1860**__ House Divided Exhibit- Dickinson University 1860 Republican Party Platform 1860 Democratic Party Platform (Northern) 1860 Democractic Party Platform (Southern) 1860 Constitutional Union Party Platform = = =__**Abolitionist Movement and Women's Rights Movement**__= Abolition and Suffrage- Library of Congress Exhibit American Anti Slavery Society Not for Ourselves Alone- Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton- PBS Women in Congress Online Exhibit HeForShe (New UN Organization being promoted by goodwill ambassador Emma Watson)
 * __1859 John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry__**

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Mission U.S. Flight to Freedom Simulation National Geographic - The Underground Railroad Simulation - [] National Underground Railroad Freedom Center- Cincinnati Museum site Maryland and the Underground Railroad [|The Underground Railroad - US History Review by Keith Hughes] True Facts About the Underground Railroad - Discovery Education Labor Movement Education, Prisons, Temperence Movements
 * __Underground Railroad__**