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The Sectional Crisis:
You can use the themes to get at this question, but I’m really just trying to get you to think big on this one. In what ways was slavery a problem in the late 1840s and the 1850s? What I mean is it n what ways was it a political problem, a social one, and economic one?
The Civil War and Reconstruction:
How do the events of the Civil War and Reconstruction show the significance of our big themes? All of them; mobility, democracy, capitalism, and difference should be relevant in one way or another.