Analyze the events and effects of the pro-slavery and abolitionist groups' beliefs in their perceived identity. 

Some events are bleeding Kansas, the slave power conspiracy, and other small rebellions and skirmishes defined the Northerners as oppressing the Southerners for being pro-slavery. The acts of John Brown gave Northerners a negative identity because of his murder of people who were pro-slavery. The events made Southerners look like victims even though most were pro-slavery.

Explain how the North and South felt victimized by the opposition's control of the federal government and create law against the opposition's region. 

The North and South felt victimized by the opposition passing legislature against them. One example is the North feeling oppressed by the South because of the high tariffs and other legislature passed limiting their economic capability. The South felt victimized by certain laws limiting the ability of new states to choose whether they wanted to be a free or slave state.

Explain the impact territorial acquisition had in increasing the severity of conflict between the North and  South. 

Acquisition of new lands and conflict within them led to an increase of nationalism. Nationalism would eventually lead to Americans growing a strong belief in manifest destiny. This created conflicts with the people already living in those lands and the other nations claiming that land.

Analyze the extent to which and the ways the change of pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces to more powerful positions intensified the sectional crisis. 

There was a large change of the slavery positions taken by people trying to access more powerful positions in government. This intensified the sectional crisis greatly. Pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces ended up creating the "Free Soil Ideology." Its main purpose was to stop slavery from expanding into the west. Free men on free soil deserved a superior system to slavery.