Sectional Crisis & Civil War — Chapter overview · U.S. & New York History: Indigenous Nations to Reconstruction, Grade 7
Five focused units, a three-session source workshop, chapter review, and chapter quiz.
Chapter question
How did slavery, territorial decisions, and political action produce a crisis and war?
Units in this chapter
- Unit 7.1 · Sectionalism: Slavery, Territory & National Power
I can explain why the sectional conflict was fought over territory rather than over the existing slave states.
- Unit 7.2 · Compromises, Fugitive Slave Law & Kansas
I can list what the Compromise of 1850 actually contained.
- Unit 7.3 · Dred Scott: Citizenship, Courts & Constitutional Conflict
I can begin with the people and legal question.
- Unit 7.4 · Election of 1860, Secession & Fort Sumter
I can explain what the Lincoln-Douglas debates established about each man's position.
- Unit 7.5 · The Civil War: Strategy, Resources & Turning Points
I can compare Union and Confederate resources and explain why the advantage took years to tell.