Evaluate the relative importance of political events and issues that divided the nation and led to civil war, including the compromises reached to maintain the balance of free and slave states, the abolitionist movement, the dred scott case, conflicting views on states’ rights and federal authority, the emergence of the republican party, and the formation of the confederate states of america.

Dred Scott case was a law suit filed on Dred Scott stating that he is not considered to be a US citizen as he belonged to the black race. Republican Party is found by Abraham Lincoln.

Explanation:

Stephen Douglas revoked the Missouri comprise which stated that it is not a slave holding state. But he decided to divide the Missouri territory in to two called Kansas and Nebraska. There was a disproportion in the number of free and slave states and because of which whether Kansas and Nebraska to become a free or slave state was left to the people’ choice. Kansas proposed legality of slavery which was not accepted by the other states and violence cropped up which took lives of many in Kansas.

An enslaved African American who had been taken by their owners to Missouri territory which is a free state as per the Missouri compromise claimed for his freedom and he was Dred Scott. US Supreme Court did not grant him freedom instead that he could not be considered under the category of US citizen because he belonged to the African American ethnicity.

This annoyed many African Americans who started to claim their rights of enfranchisement. Democratic Party was in progress by the union states who were inclined to abolish slavery which gave rise to confederate states.  

the covenant that god made with abraham was a unilateral (one-sided) promise from god to abraham.   apart from anything abraham did, god was promising that he was going to bring about a great nation from abraham's offspring, and that the messiah (meaning "the anointed one") would come from abraham's descendants, as one through whom the whole world would receive favor from god.   as god promised abraham, "through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed" (genesis 22: 18).

the "new covenant" was announced by jesus of nazareth, who had asserted that he was the "son of david" (and descendant of abraham) that fulfilled those promises to abraham.   when jesus introduced the sacred meal that we now refer to as the lord's supper, as told his disciples in reference to the wine they drank, "this cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you" (luke 22: 20).   this "new covenant" through jesus was also a unilateral (one-sided) covenant.   he gave himself in sacrifice for all people, without conditions attached.   as his friend and apostle john later wrote, "he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world" (1 john 2: 2).

so the covenant with abraham and the "new covenant" ushered in by jesus are, in essence, connected as one covenant -- because jesus was saying he was the one promised to abraham that fulfilled that covenant and brought blessing to the world.