The Election of 1860 and the Secession Crisis

It declared African Americans were citizens and could vote.

It ruled that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories, angering Northerners and pleasing Southerners.

It abolished slavery in all states.

It united the North and South on the issue of slavery.

Abraham Lincoln and John Bell supported expansion; Stephen Douglas and John C. Breckinridge opposed it.

Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln supported expansion; John Bell and John C. Breckinridge opposed it.

John C. Breckinridge supported expansion; Abraham Lincoln opposed it.

John Bell and Stephen Douglas supported expansion; Abraham Lincoln and John C. Breckinridge opposed it.

The Missouri Compromise, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the Crittenden Compromise

The Emancipation Proclamation, the Missouri Compromise, and the Dred Scott decision

The Dred Scott decision, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the Crittenden Compromise

The Compromise of 1850, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act

It granted citizenship to all Black Americans.

It upheld the constitutionality of the Missouri Compromise.

It declared that Black Americans, whether enslaved or free, were not citizens.

It allowed individual states to grant federal citizenship.