Answer:
1.The slave economy.
2.Life for enslaved men and women.
3.Early abolition.
4.The Mexican-American War.
5.The Compromise of 1850.
6.Practice: Abolition, slavery, and the Compromise of 1850.
7.Uncle Tom's Cabin - influence of the Fugitive Slave Act.
8.Uncle Tom's Cabin - reception and significance.
Explanation:
Sectionalism - putting the interests of your region before the interests of the nation - dominated the 1850s. The nation was divided over the issue of slavery. Slavery was under attack as antislavery forces tried to keep it from expanding into the territories acquired by the United States in the 1840s.
