Sectional Conflict

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