Discussion Forum
• Summarize the issues and ideas that promoted sectional conflict during this era.
• How did the promotion of a national American System encourage westward expansion and the unification of state economies, which would at the same time rekindle the sectional controversy over slavery?
• Why did the North and South oppose federally funded "internal improvements" such as roads, canals, and eventually railroads, which would bring western commodities and products to the East?
• Why did the establishment of the Bank of the United States generate regional tensions between the western frontier regions and the eastern seaboard?
• Analyze how enslaved peoples responded to the inhumanity of their situation.
• Why did President Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation? What were the social and political effects of the document?
The response should include a reference list. Using one-inch margins, Times New Roman 12 pnt font, double-space and APA style of writing and citations.