Section 3
Deepening of the Sectional Crisis
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The Sectional Crisis Deepens
Increasing sectional polarization pushed most Americans into two distinct political camps on the eve of the 1860 presidential election.
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The Dred Scott Decision
In Dred Scott v. Sandford, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that slaves were not protected by the Constitution and were not U.S. citizens.
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The Lecompton Constitution
The Lecompton Constitution, drafted by proslavery factions, was a state constitution proposed for the state of Kansas that rivaled the constitution proposed by the Free-Soil faction.
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The Panic of 1857
The Panic of 1857 was a financial crisis in the United States caused by the overexpansion of the domestic economy.
The Emergence of Abraham Lincoln
The Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 helped Lincoln rise to national prominence and secure the Republican presidential nomination in the election of 1860.