Song: Steps Towards the Civil War "A Dividing Nation"

This upbeat song from the "Professor Presley History Rocks" CD describes some of the major events leading up to the Civil War in the U.S. Students love to listen to music in the classroom and this song provides a musical timeline of events including the Missouri Compromise, Nat Turner's Rebellion, Compromise of 1850, The Fugitive Slave Act, Bleeding Kansas, the Beating of Senator Sumner, the Dred Scott Case, the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry, the Election of 1860 and the Bombing of Fort Sumter. Recorded at San Diego's hit making Earthling Studios this is a great way to create interest and energy about this critical time in American History. Heard regularly on the radio program "Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child" these songs will have your students learning history with music and they will beg you for more! You can listen to previews on Itunes.