This course contains 11 segments:
Manifest Destiny
The Mexican-American War
The Compromise of 1850
Sectional conflict: regional differences
In the 1850s, the long-brewing tensions over slavery began to tear the United States apart.
Failure of compromise
Election of 1860 and secession
Military conflict in the Civil War
Government policies during the Civil War
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This course contains 11 segments:
Manifest Destiny
The Mexican-American War
The Compromise of 1850
Sectional conflict: regional differences
In the 1850s, the long-brewing tensions over slavery began to tear the United States apart.
Failure of compromise
Election of 1860 and secession
Military conflict in the Civil War
Government policies during the Civil War
This course contains 11 segments:
Manifest Destiny
The Mexican-American War
The Compromise of 1850
Sectional conflict: regional differences
In the 1850s, the long-brewing tensions over slavery began to tear the United States apart.
Failure of compromise
Election of 1860 and secession
Military conflict in the Civil War
Government policies during the Civil War
The end of slavery. The beginning of a new era. The biggest conflict ever to happen on American soil. What caused the Civil War and how did it change the United States?
Reconstruction
During the period of Reconstruction after the Civil War, the federal government worked to reintegrate the American South into the fabric of the United States and to realign its society to ensure political equality for African Americans.
Failure of Reconstruction
Comparison in Period 5
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