Developing Conflict
Introduction
As sectionalism was increasing between the North and South, both regions wanted their particular versions of freedom and democracy to spread to the Western Territories.
Learning Objectives
As sectionalism was increasing between the North and South, both regions wanted their particular versions of freedom and democracy to spread to the Western Territories.
Learning Objectives
- How did sectional divides between the Northern and Southern parts of the eastern United States become points of conflict in the West?
- What role did these issues in the West develop into primary causes of the American Civil War?
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Subtopics for Discovery
- Missouri Compromise (1820)
- Compromise of 1850
- Fugitive Slave Act (1850) and the Underground Railroad
- Publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
- Missouri-Kansas Border Wars (1854-1861)
- Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
- Dred Scott Case/Decision (1857)
- John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1859)