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Part 3: USA 1850–80
A study of the reasons which led American settlers to move West and the impact of that
westward expansion on the Native American population, the Civil War and attempts at
reconstruction in America.
Key issues and description of content
Reasons for westward expansion
- Manifest Destiny. Reasons for westward expansion (e.g. free land, gold prospecting, railways, religious freedom, federal policies)
- The problems for settlers travelling West. The life of homesteaders.
Slavery and the Civil War
- Attitudes to slavery and slave life on Southern plantations. Relations between states that permitted slavery and those that prohibited it.
- Causes of the Civil War: Election of Abraham Lincoln, Issues with states’ rights and slavery.
- Rise of the Republican Party in the 1850s. Southern secession. Attack on Fort Sumter and outbreak of the Civil War.
Reconstruction, African-Americans and Southern reaction to defeat 1865–78
- Introduction of Black rights. The Freedmen’s Bureau. Reaction to reconstruction. Treatment of African-Americans as seen in the ‘Black Codes’.
Defeat and demise of the Native Americans of the Plains
- Reasons for conflict between settlers and Native Americans. Movement of the Native American tribes to reservations. Examples of conflict (e.g. the Sand Creek Massacre 1864, Battle of the Little Bighorn 1876).
References for Part 3: USA 1850–80
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