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AmH15 Sectionalism
The Rise of Sectionalism
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Author of antislavery book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| New agreement proposed by Henry Clay that made CA a free state, allowed territories to vote on the slavery question and strengthened the Fugitive Slave Law | Compromise of 1850 |
| Favoring the interest of one region over the whole country | Sectionalism |
| People have the power to decide the laws | Popular Sovreignty |
| Law that punished people who helped runaway slaves and did not allow African Americans to speak on their behalf in their hearings. | Fugitive Slave Law |
| Stephen Douglas proposed this transportation from Chicago to the West Coast | railroad |
| The plan to divide the remaining territory of the Louisiana Purchase into two territories. | Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| The Kansas-Nebraska Act undid this previous system to settle the slavery question for states | Missouri Compromise |
| A new political party in 1856 that joined people from the Whigs, Free Soilers and Democrats to focus on the fight against slavery | Republicans |
| The US Supreme Court case that ruled that slaves were property and had no rights as citizens | Dred Scott case |
| He said that a divided nation could not survived | Abraham Lincoln |
| Took over an arsenal with hopes of arming slaves who would then rebel against the slaveholders | John Brown |
| Killing of 5 pro-slavery men in Kansas | Pottawatomie Massacre |
| The area of the US that strongly opposed the Kansas-Nebraska | North |
| A new political group that started to end slavery | Republican Party |