Essential Questions: 

1. Why might people living in the same region share similar beliefs and attitudes?

2. Can you explain the pros and cons of compromise as a way to settle differences?

3. How could the known beliefs and experiences of a newly elected president foreshadow the future of a nation?

Key Ideas

Section 1 - Rising anger over slavery increased tensions between North and South and led to violence

Section 2 - The formation of the antislavery Republican Party divided the country further

Section 3 - The presidential election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 led seven Southern states to secede from the Union