A nation divided
Introduction
In the mid-1800s, the United States had grown apart. Since the beginning of the colonies more than 200 years earlier, two regions of the country had developed in very different ways. They were not the same for many reasons, but the rising tension was starting to tear the nation apart. By 1860, after years of compromise on several issues, war could no longer be avoided. The time of peace and unity would be shattered by the American Civil War.
• Culture: North and South
• Economy: Industrial and
agricultural
• Constitution: National
Government and States' Rights
• Free
State and Slave State
• Slavery
• Abolition
• Slavery
in the Territories
• Missouri
Compromise (1820)
• Nat Turner
Rebellion
• Compromise
of 1850
• Fugitive Slave
Law
• Uncle Tom's
Cabin
• Kansas-Nebraska
Act
• Dred Scott
Decision
• John
Brown's Raid at Harpers Ferry
• Election of
1860
• Secession
• Fort Sumter
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