A Divided Nation
Essential Questions
- How do sectional conflicts challenge the nation?
- Why did the election of Abraham Lincoln spark the secession of southern states?
- How did the admission of new states cause tension between slave and free states?
Content
- The controversy over the expansion of slavery
- Trouble in Kansas
- The secession of the southern states
- Dred Scott
- Compromise of 1850
- Missouri Compromise
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Popular sovereignty and the Lincoln-Douglas debates
Handouts
- 15-1 Note taking
- 15-1 Note taking with answers
- 15-2 Note taking
- 15-2 Note taking with answers
- 15-3 Note taking
- Key points 15-1 and 15
- 15-4 Note taking with answers
- Chapter 15 study guide
- 15-1 Note taking with answers
- 15-2 Note taking
- 15-2 Note taking with answers
- 15-3 Note taking
- Key points 15-1 and 15
- 15-4 Note taking with answers
- Chapter 15 study guide