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Analyze the causes and consequences of the pro-slavery and abolitionist groups' respective beliefs in their own superior moral identity.

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Analyze the causes and consequences of the pro-slavery and abolitionist groups' respective beliefs in their own superior moral identity.

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Explain the impact of territorial acquisition in intensifying sectional conflict. 

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Explain the impact of territorial acquisition in intensifying sectional conflict. 

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Analyze the degree to which and the ways in which the shift of pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces to more extreme positions worsened the sectional crisis.

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Analyze the degree to which and the ways in which the shift of pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces to more extreme positions worsened the sectional crisis.

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Explain how both the North and South felt threatened by the other side's ability to control the federal government and legislate against the interests of their region.

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Explain how both the North and South felt threatened by the other side's ability to control the federal government and legislate against the interests of their region.

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How did the North and South feel threatened by the other in their control of the federal government and how they attempted to use that control for regional benefit?

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How did the North and South feel threatened by the other in their control of the federal government and how they attempted to use that control for regional benefit?

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Competing Plans
"popular sovereignty" was an alternative to the extension of the MO Compromise line, something southerners would have probably supported while northerners supported popular sovereignty.

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Rising Section Tensions
"The biggest obstacle to the president's program was the white South's fear that two new free states would be added to the northern majority."

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Opposition to the Fugitive Slave Act
Transcontinental Railroad
Northerners refused to follow the Fugitive Slave Act, and Southerners were angry that a federal victory for them was meaningless to the North.
Where the transcontinental railroad would have it's eastern terminus was big for both sides.

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Kansas-Nebraska Act
Birth of the Republican Party
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was supposed to have Nebraska become a free state while Kansas was a slave state, but ultimately both became free states, and it divided the Whigs and Democrats and helped create the Republican Party.

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The Dred Scott Decision
Lecompton Constitution
Dred Scott Decisions said the federal government was powerless to act on the issue of slavery. The Lecompton Constitution would have legalized slavery and Kansas, but they voted against it.

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How did the shifting of pro-slavery and anti-slavery to two extremes worsen the sectional crisis and to what degree?

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How did the shifting of pro-slavery and anti-slavery to two extremes worsen the sectional crisis and to what degree?

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Rising Sectional Tensions
One of the causes was disagreements over which territories or new states should allow slaves and which should be free

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The Free Soil Ideology
Abolitionists felt slavery was dangerous because it went against the heart of democracy
They felt there was a conspiracy to spread slavery and destroy capitalism

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the pro-slavery argument
Pro-slavery groups felt slavery was good because slaves were treated better than factory workers, allowed blacks and whites to live in peace, improved the southern economy, and was the basis of southern life.

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Disunion
As a result, both sides found no common ground with the other

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Slavery and the Territories
Issue of whether slavery should be allowed in the new territories.

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Rising Sectional Tensions
Southern fear of more free states being added to the Northern majority

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Temporary Compromise
The sectional crisis was averted for a while, but it ultimately was not final.

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"Young America"
Transcontinental Railroad and Slavery
Gadsden Purchase
Kansas-Nebraska Controversy
The South opposed acquisition of territory that would not be slave holding, and the Transcontinental Railroad was a point of contention between the North and South. What to do with the Kansas-Nebraska controversy was also a hot debate.

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Kansas-Nebraska Act
It was ultimately decided that there would be two states, where one would probably be free and one slave.

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Slavery and the Territories
Again, tension over slavery in the territories.

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Rising Sectional Tensions
Fear over more free than slave states.

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Temporary Compromise
There was a temporary compromise, but both sides were still unhappy

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What were the consequences and causes of increased belief in proslavery and abolitionist groups' own superior identity?

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What were the consequences and causes of increased belief in proslavery and abolitionist groups' own superior identity?

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How did the acquisition of new territory intensify sectional tensions?

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How did the acquisition of new territory intensify sectional tensions?

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Birth of the Republican Party
The Birth of the Republican Party signaled unrest over the sectional crisis and issue of slavery

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The Free Soil Ideology
Free soil ideology and slave power conspiracy drove anti-slavery to an extreme

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The pro-slavery Argument
Rather than recognizing slavery as a necessary evil, pro-slavery arguers now presented it as a positive good

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Disunion
Both sides ultimately became convinced they had no common ground