Politics and Sectionalism in the 1850s - Stephen R. Demkin

1. Introduction
2. The Compromise of 1850
3. The Kansas-Nebraska Act
4. The Bleeding of Kansas
5. The Case of Scott versus Sandfort
6. Selected Bibliography

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