Sectional Conflict


Slave family picking cotton near Savannah, Georgia, in the early 1860s.
(© Bettmann/CORBIS)
  1. Two Americas
  2. Lands of Promise
  3. Slavery and Sectionalism
  4. The Abolitionists
  5. Texas and War with Mexico
  6. The Compromise of 1850
  7. A Divided Nation
  8. Lincoln, Douglas and Brown
  9. The 1860 Election