Sectional tension in the 1850s (K-A)

• The slave economy (K-A)
• Life for enslaved men and women (K-A)
• Early abolition (K-A)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin - influence of the Fugitive Slave Act (K-A)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin - reception and significance (K-A)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin - plot and analysis (K-A)
• The Kansas-Nebraska Act and party realignment (K-A)
• Bleeding Kansas (K-A)
• Manifest Destiny (K-A)
• Sectional conflict: Regional differences (K-A)
• Dred Scott v. Sandford (K-A)
• Dred Scott, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, and the election of 1860 (K-A)