1858+G


 * Dred Scott case-basically favored the south because the ruling was that blacks weren't citizens and non-citizens do not have the right to sue, etc. Because this ruling favored the southerners, Republicans said that this is evidence of the slave power trying to dominate the government.
 * Lecompton Controversy-Kansas tried to be a slave state but it didn't pass so the southerners were mad because they didn't get what they wanted and the Republicans got made because they even dared to argue.
 * Lincoln-Douglas debate-Lincoln was Republican, Douglas was Democrat. Slavery was mostly discussed including expansion of it into other territories. They also talked about the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Missouri Compromise.
 * Cultural Sectionalism-Southern nationalism