The intensifying sectional crisis, 1848–1861

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Explain the causes and effects of the debate over the extension of slavery into western territories after the Mexican Cession, including free-soil arguments, popular sovereignty, and proslavery constitutional claims.
Explain the political and sectional significance of the Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act.
Explain the causes and effects of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, violence in Kansas, and the collapse of the Second Party System.

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Explain the causes and significance of the rise of the Republican Party and the election of 1860.

Explain why southern secession followed Lincoln’s election and evaluate the relative importance of slavery, states’ rights arguments, and sectional identity in the decision to leave the Union.

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