“The Road to Civil War: Examining Key Catalysts in the Turbulent 1850s”

The final paper requires a minimum of 2 primary sources and 3 secondary sources.
Students need to use pagination citation throughout their papers to show how and where they used their sources. Example: “The War of 1812 was started by America.” (Kucsan, 2009) or (the authors last name). Now if you are using more than one article by the same author then you need to put in the title of the article such as (Kucsan, 2009, Consequences of the War of 1812). If you are using 2 different works with authors of the same last name then do the following; (Kucsan, P, 2009) Just put in the first initial.
paper topic 
The 1850s was a particularly tumultuous time in the United States.  Choose 4-5 events, compromises, publications, or people and explain how they propelled the United States towards the Civil War.