Harper's Ferry
Focusing Questions:
1. What new advantage was the South shown it had?
2. Was John Brown a martyr or a villain?
Ken Burns' The Civil War (PBS) [time 28:00 - 32:58]
Secession
Proximal Cause: Election of Lincoln
December 1860 - South Carolina
January 1861 - Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisianna
February 1861 - Texas
April 1861 - Virginia
May 1861 - Arkansas, North Carolina
June 1861 - Tennessee
Focusing Questions:
1. Why did the Southerners want to secede?
2. Did all Southerners want to secede or think secession would be successful?
3. How did Northerners react to secession?
Ken Burns' The Civil War (PBS) [time 35:08 - 42.41]
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