Background to the Conflict: Pre-Civil War Days PPT

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Background to the Conflict: Pre-Civil War Days

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The American Civil War was a complex test of a relatively young democracy in the mid-nineteenth century. Discuss the events and factors that led to the Civil War with a thorough slideshow presentation.

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Concepts

plantations, the underground railroad, fugitive slaves, cotton, slavery, the united states civil war, north and south

Additional Tags

civil war, cotton, missouri compromise of 1820, north and south, plantation life, slavery, underground railroad, john brown rebellion, social studies

Instructional Ideas

Use a few of the slides as a daily introduction to the information, or as a review afterward

Pros

Facts about the Civil War are laid out in an attractive and easy-to-understand format

Cons

None

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