Civil War and

Reconstruction

National Expansion

and Reform

American

Revolution

Exploration &

Colonization

The New

Nation

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Civil War and

Reconstruction

National Expansion

and Reform

American

Revolution

Exploration &

Colonization

The New

Nation

why sectionalism, states’ rights and slavery are considered causes of the Civil War.

1607

JamestownFounded

1620

PlymouthFounded

1776

Declaration of

Independence

1787

Constitution Written

1803

LouisianaPurchase

1861 1865

Civil War

Timeline…Timeline…Timeline…Timeline…Timeline…Timeline

MayflowerCompact

Missouri Compromise

Nullification Crisis

Compromise of 1850

Fugitive Slave Law

State Rights

Slavery

Economics

Series of Events….1. John C. Calhoun requests the tariff be

nullified by Jackson because it gravely hurt the Southern economy.

2. Jackson refuses.3. John C. Calhoun attempts to nullify

the tariff in the South Carolina Capital. He threatens if a state cannot nullify a federal law, South Carolina will secede.

4. Jackson threatens war with South Carolina and death to John C. Calhoun.

5. Henry Clay proposes the Compromise Tariff of 1832 to ease tensions between the South and the Federal Government (for now!)

Calhoun Jackson ClayDo states have the right to nullify a federal law they do not agree with?

Divisions over slavery in

territory gained in the

Mexican-American

(1846-48). War were

resolved in the

Compromise of 1850. It

consisted of laws

admitting California as a

free state, creating Utah

and New Mexico

territories with the

question of slavery in

each to be determined by

popular sovereignty,

settling a Texas-New

Mexico boundary dispute

in the former’s favor,

ending the slave trade in

Washington, D.C., and

making it easier for

southerners to recover fugitive slaves.

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