1. Read: The Crisis of Union - Document Overview
2. Read: The Democratic Platform (1856)
3. Read: The Republican Platform (1856)
4. Read: Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
5. Read: The House Divided Speech (1858), Abraham Lincoln

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1. View: Independent Gold Hunter on His Way to California
2. View: Daguerreotype of Miners Panning for Gold
3. View: Millard Fillmore
4. View: A notice to the free blacks of Boston
5. View: Ruins of the Free State Hotel Lawrence, Kansas, 1856
6. View: Chief Justice Roger B. Taney
7. View: President James Buchanan
8. View: Prospect of a Smash Up
9. View: Brooklyn Heights
10. View: Wall Street, 1867
11. View: Airshaft of a tenement, New York City
12. View: From South to North
13. View: Slave kidnapping
14. View: Office-seekers during Lincoln inauguration
15. View: Reminiscences of Washington
16. View: Harriet Tubman
17. View: Roland Hayes
18. View: Woman holding a jug

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1. View: Compromise of 1850
2. View: The Gadsden Purchase, 1853
3. View: The Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854
4. View: Election of 1856
5. View: Election of 1860

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