MODULE 12: THE IMPENDING CRISIS

1. Introduction: The Sectional Crisis

2. American Fears of Conspiracy and the Road to the Civil War

3. The Pre-Civil War South

4. What Defines the South?

5. Slavery in a Capitalist World

6. The Breakdown of the Party System

7. The Revival of the Slavery Issue

8. The Gathering Storm

9. The Election of 1860

10. South Carolina Defends its Decision to Secede from the Union