He believed that the current sectional crisis could-like all past disagreements in U.S. history-be resolved through compromise.

Throughout the 1850s, Bragg had been disturbed by the accelerating sectional crisis.

The Company was formed in the midst of the sectional crisis that preceded the American Civil War.

He resigned his commission on January 31, 1861, with the discussion of secession and the sectional crisis that led to the Civil War.

In the sectional crisis of 1850, Douglas was one of the strongest advocates of compromise.

Van Buren, initially the leading candidate, opposed immediate annexation because it might lead to a sectional crisis over the status of slavery in the West.

He recapped international events and suggested several adjustments to tariff policy and executive organization, but such issues were overshadowed by the sectional crisis facing Congress.

"Many historians abandoned this insight in favor of other narrow economic questions as the cause of the sectional crisis," he continued.

Secession was a dead letter...Slavery, the root of the sectional crisis, was a memory.

Congress enacted a new tariff in 1832, but it offered the state little relief, resulting in the most dangerous sectional crisis since the Union was formed.