Researching Events Leading up to the Civil War
Newspaper Editorials: "Few Americans were more involved with the coming of the Civil War than the newspaper editors whose words have been collected here... these writers were passionate and nearly inflexible in their views. The editorials they wrote remind us that the people of the era experienced events not with the comprehensive hindsight and revealed secrets of the historian but rather through the disconnected and opinionated fragments supplied by these journalists.
The Compromise of 1850
The Fugitive Slave Law
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First Fugitive Slave Law 1793 http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/fugslave.html |
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Fugitive Slave Law: Background http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/f1/fugitive.asp |
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Fugitive Slave Law http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASfugitive.htm |
Bleeding Kansas
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Bleeding Kansas http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2952.html |
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/kansas.htm |
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Bleeding Kansas Fort Scott http://www.nps.gov/fosc/bleeding.htm |
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Secession Crisis http://civilwar.bluegrass.net/secessioncrisis/bleedingkansas.html |
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The
Civil War Began in Kansas 80 Years Ago http://raven.cc.ukans.edu/carrie/kancoll/articles/progress/civil.htm |
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Dred Scott Case
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Dred
Scott's fight for freedom |
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The Dred Scott Case http://library.wustl.edu/vlib/dredscott/ |
John Brown
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John Brown http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/jbrown/master.html |
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John Brown's Raid http://www.civilwarhome.com/johnbrown.htm |
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
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Background: Lincoln-Douglas Debates http://www.civilwarhome.com/lincolndouglas.htm |
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Better Background: Lincoln-Douglas Debates http://www.darien.k12.ct.us/jburt/approject/civilwar/ld/ |
The Caning of Senator Sumner