United States of America... Or Is It?   By: Katie Longden Amanda Lewis Lana Everett Kristin Van Gilder

After the election of 1860, the United States became disunited into the North and South. The topics below are a collection of memorabilia from this era, helping us understand why the Civil War occurred.

Nullification Debate	Advances in Transportation and Communications	Changes in Industry and Agriculture	Immigration
Westward Movement	Slavery	Religion & Transcendentalism Philosophy	The Elections of 1856 & 1860
Education	Social Reform Movements	Abolitionism	Manifest Destiny
The Mexican War	US Territorial Growth in the 1840s & 1850s	The Compromise of 1850	The Wilmot Proviso
The Fugitive Slave Act	Dred Scott	The Ostend Manifesto	The Kansas- Nebraska Act
"Bleeding" Kansas	John Brown	Uncle Tom's Cabin	Northern & Southern Economy