I.B.8.6

Explain how sectionalism led to the civil war, to include:<ol type="a"><li>different economies that developed in the north, south and west; addition of new states to the union and the balance of power in the United States senate (Missouri and 1850 compromises)</li><li>extension of slavery into the territories (e.g., Dred Scott decision, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Frederick Douglass, John Brown)</li><li>presidential election of 1860, Lincoln's victory and the south's secession</li></ol>