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Lesson 3: 7.3: The Road to the Civil War- How did the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act reshape the debates over slavery?
- What were the final events that led to Southern secession and the Civil War?
- The Dred Scott Decision Featuring Justice Neil M. Gorsuch
- Primary Source: Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
- How did Abraham Lincoln root his anti-slavery politics in America’s founding?
- Was Southern secession unconstitutional?
- Primary Source: A Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union (1861)
- Primary Source: Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address and Message to the Special Session of the 37th Congress (1861)
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How did Abraham Lincoln root his anti-slavery politics in America’s founding?
Richard Brookhiser talks about Abraham Lincoln;s anti-slavery politics.
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