Learning from the Past

In the final piece of a 3-part episode, we look at the political, social, and economic reasons the southern states seceded from the Union, leading to the Civil War in 1861.

In the second of a three-part episode, we examine the "peculiar" institution of slavery in America during the nineteenth century, particularly the life of a slave, and different forms of slave resistance during this time period.

The first in a three-part episode, we examine the issues that delegates debated at the Constitutional Convention in 1787, and how they progressed (or digressed) by the mid-nineteenth century. 

In Part TWO of our Antebellum (pre-Civil War) Sectionalism episode, we examine changing politics due to slavery, and how this divisive issue further split the northern and southern states, as well as some of the violence that ensued from this sectional divide. 

In this episode, we examine the sectional issues and events that surrounded slavery (Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act) and what Congress did to TRY and keep the Union together. 

In this podcast we will take a brief look at the economic, social, and political differences between the north and the south in the early 19th century, which contributed to the sectional divide that started the American Civil War.  

We will inspect the various reform movements (founded on religious ideals) that aimed at bringing forth equality for more Americans, especially African Americans and women. 

We move into the history of the United States in the early 19th Century. We will look at the continued progress and consequences of Manifest Destiny and westward expansion, including America’s foreign policy and treaties that increased their stronghold on the western hemisphere. We will examine the few similarities and many differences that began a sectional divide the North and South, including politics, states' rights, and the institution of slavery.