Printable American History Readings with Questions
 
 
Sectional Conflict
 
 
 
1. Two Americas
 
 
2. Lands of Promise
 
 
3. Slavery and Sectionalism
 
 
4. The Abolitionists
 
 
5. Texas and War with Mexico
 
 
6. The Compromise of 1850
 
 
7. A Divided Nation
 
 
8. Lincoln, Douglas, and Brown
 
 
9. The 1860 Election
 
 
 
 
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Text courtesy of the U.S. State Department,
Bureau of International Information Programs, 2005