Consider the events and factors that brought the Northern and Southern states to the brink of civil war. Argue both sides of the debate.
1. Write from both the Northern and Southern perspective.
2. How did events like the Missouri Compromise, the Nullification Crisis, the Compromise of 1850, the Dread Scott case, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the Mexican American War illustrate the sectionalist debate?
3. Discuss the larger economic, population, cultural, and political factors that emphasized sectionalism.
4. Consider the relationship between the Northern and Southern states before the Civil War.