8th Grade Events Leading to War Worksheets
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Written by Adi Ackerman, Head Teacher
The events leading to the Civil War run from the Compromise of 1850 to the firing on Fort Sumter in April 1861. There are 8 sheets for 8th grade here, each with an answer key. They cover the sections in 1850, the Senate debate, the 1850 and 1854 maps, new parties, the caning of Charles Sumner, the Dred Scott dissent, the 1860 census and the secession winter.
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The Northeast held most factories, the South rested on cotton grown mainly by enslaved people, and the Old Northwest had family farms growing corn and wheat. Students chart products, labor and transport for each.
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