Unit 5: The Sectional Crisis Deepens
Essential Questions:
- What factors influenced American westward movement?
- In what ways did Manifest Destiny both unite and divide the American people?
- What issues divided America in the first half of the nineteenth century?
- How did religious and reform movements redefine American concepts of freedom, equality and morality?
- Why had sectional compromise become impossible by 1860?
LESSONS
The Antebellum South and the Abolition Movement (Chapter 16)
Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny (Chapter 17)
Renewing the Sectional Struggle (Chapter 18)
Drifting Toward Disunion (Chapter 19)
Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny (Chapter 17)
Renewing the Sectional Struggle (Chapter 18)
Drifting Toward Disunion (Chapter 19)