Problem
The road to Civil War lecture was designed to explain the events that lead to the Civil War. Be sure to understand how all the things discussed in the lecture caused the war. What land did America pick up after the 1830's? How did they get it and how did it insure a split in the country? What were the Free-Soil and constitutional protection arguments? What was Popular Sovereignty? Explain the series of events that led to the birth of the Republican party. Show how Kansas, the Dred Scott case, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, the Lecompton constitution, John Brown's raid, and the election of 1860 led to southern secession. Why would non-slaveholders care if slaves were freed? Why did the South secede? Why didn't the North just let them go? Where and how did the war begin? What were the conclusions for this lecture?