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Sectionalism
nullification crisis
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Sectionalism | division of a nation by regions, each region is more concerned with the issues of its region than the whole nation |
| Free Soil Party | formed in the 1840s, was opposed to the expansion of slavery, led to the creation of the Republican Party |
| Stephen A. Douglas | Democratic senator from Illinois, ran against Lincoln for the Senate In 1858, creator of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, ran against Lincoln for President in 1860 |
| Henry Clay | created the Compromise of 1850, known as the “Great Compromiser” |
| Compromise of 1850 | created when California wanted to become a free state, (1) California a free state, (2) Slave trade abolished in Washington, D.C., (3) stronger fugitive slave law, (4) slavery would not be limited in the Mexican Cession |
| Fugitive Slave Act | citizens were now required to turn in all suspected runaway slaves, more Northerners became abolitionists |
| Uncle Tom’s Cabin | written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, it was a fictional story of slave life, convinced many in the North of the evils of slavery |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | allowed each territory’s population to vote on whether to enter the U.S. as either a free or slave state (example of popular sovereignty) |
| John Brown | radical abolitionist, led raids on pro-slavery towns in Kansas and the raid on Harper’s Ferry |
| “Bleeding Kansas” | period before the vote on slavery in Kansas, characterized by violence by both pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups |
| Raid on Harper’s Ferry | led by Brown, attempt to capture weapons in a federal arsenal (weapons storage) in order to supply guns to uprising slave, Brown and followers were captured and executed |
| Republican Party | formed from other anti-slavery parties, platform (basic beliefs) was based on limiting the spread of slavery into new territories, popular in the North, created in the 1850s |
| Dred Scott v. Sandford | Supreme Court case in which Scott, a slave, sued for his freedom based on the fact he had lived in a territory that prohibited slavery, (1) the Supreme Court ruled that Scott had no right to sue because he was a slave, (2) Congress did not have the Consti |
| Abraham Lincoln | 16th President, member of the Republican Party, his election spurred southern states to secede |
| Lincoln-Douglas Debates | for 1858 Illinois Senate race, defined the arguments on both sides of the slavery issue |
| Democratic Party | supported the spread of slavery in the 1850s, popular in the South |
| Secession | to withdraw from a nation |
| Confederate States of America | a union of the states that secede from the United States prior to the Civil War |
| Jefferson Davis | president of the Confederate states of America |
| Border States | Missouri, Delaware, Kentucky and Maryland, these states had slavery but chose to not secede during the Civil War |
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