10.+The+Crisis+of+the+Union


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Map shows Free and slave states & territories by repeal of the Missouri Compromise. Portraits are of John C. Fremont & W.L. Dayton.


 * ** See Massachusetts United States History I.35 for information on different economies and cultures of the North and South  **


 * ** Massachusetts United States History I.36 for material on the coming of the Civil War, including links related to:  **
 * Missouri Compromise (1820)
 * South Carolina Nullification Crisis (1832-1833)
 * Wilmot Proviso (1846)
 * Compromise of 1850
 * Publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s //Uncle Tom’s Cabin// (1851-1852)
 * Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
 * Dred Scott Supreme Court case (1857)
 * Lincoln-Douglas debates (1858)
 * John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry (1859)
 * Election of Abraham Lincoln (1860)



[|Cooper Union Address], Abraham Lincoln, February 27, 1860