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Long-Term Causes of the Civil War Research
Civil War Madness Research
Helpful Websites & Articles
“Bleeding Kansas”
Compromise of 1850
Dred Scott Decision
Invention of the Cotton Gin
John Brown’s Attack on Harper Ferry
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Missouri Compromise
Rise of the Abolition Movement
Bleeding Kansas: Fort Scott National Historic Site
National Parks Service
Bleeding Kansas: Kansas was next in line to join the Union, but would it enter free or slave? The violence that broke out there was a preview of the greater civil war to come
Junior Scholastic
Bleeding Kansas: the Kansas-Nebraska Act turned peaceful prairies into battlegrounds
America's Civil War
Compromise of 1850
Britannica Online
Compromise of 1850
Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. History: Government and Politics
A compromise to save the union!
Cobblestone
Dred Scott Decision
History.com
Dred Scott Decision
Britannica Online
What Was the Dred Scott Decision?
PBS Video
Invention of the Cotton Gin
Britannica Online
Cotton Gin
UXL Encyclopedia of U.S. History
Eli Whitney: Biography
Ducksters Education Site
Eli Whitney
Biography in Context (log in with your Virtual Student Library Card)
The Harpers Ferry Raid
Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. History: War
Harpers Ferry Raid
UXL Encyclopedia of U.S. History(Vol. 4. )
The story of John Brown
Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication(Vol. 104, Issue 21)
John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid
Ducksters Educational Site
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Britannica Online
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Spartacus Educational
Kansas-Nebraska Act
History.com
Missouri Compromise
Britannica Online
The Missouri Compromise
Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. History: War
A balancing act: the Missouri Compromise
Cobblestone
Abolitionist Movement
Britannica Online
Abolitionist Movement
History.com
Sojourner Truth
Biography in Context (log in with your Virtual Student Library Card)
Martin R. Delany
Britannica Online
Harriet Tubman
Britannica Online
Helpful Databases
Gale Biography in Context
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A comprehensive database of biographical information throughout history, around the world and across all disciplines and subject areas. Use your Virtual Student Library Card to log in.
Britannica School - Middle Edition
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Encyclopedia content for middle school grades plus multimedia, timelines, world atlas, country comparison, and primary sources.
Gale in Context: Middle School
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A middle school-appropriate database of reference works, biographies, magazine and journal articles, primary source documents, and multimedia.
Books & eBooks
eBooks
Books
Causes of the war : 1800-1861
by
Cooke, Tim
Call Number: Multi-User eBook
Civil War
by
Rees, Bob
Call Number: Multi-user eBook
What caused the Civil War?
by
Hardyman, Robyn
Call Number: Multi-User eBook
U.S. Civil War: Why They Fought : Why They Fought
by
Grayson, Robert
Publication Date: Capstone / 2015
Biggest Battles of the Civil War
by
Molly Kolpin
Publication Date: 2014
Civil War by the Numbers
by
Lanser, Amanda
Publication Date: Capstone / 2015
Great Women of the Civil War
by
Kolpin, Molly
Publication Date: Capstone / 2014
Heroes of the Civil War
by
Wittman, Susan
Publication Date: Capstone / 2014
Split History of the Civil War: A Perspectives Flip Book : A Perspectives Flip Book
by
Fitzgerald, Stephanie
Publication Date: Capstone / 2012
Civil War
by
John E. Stanchak; Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff; Nicola Graimes
Call Number: 973.7 Sta
ISBN: 0789463024
Publication Date: 2000-09-27
Scholastic Encyclopedia of the Civil War
by
Catherine Clinton
Call Number: 973.7 CLI
ISBN: 0590372270
Publication Date: 1999-09-01
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