Causes of Sectionalism
This system divided the country into two distinct labor economies- industrial north and the agricultural south.
What is the Sectional economy
This 1820 compromise maintained the balance between free and slave states and banned slavery north of 36° 30'.
This “bleeding” territory became the first battleground over popular sovereignty.
What is Kansas
He was the Chief Justice behind the Dred Scott decision.
Who is Roger Taney
She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe
This proposed that the United States prohibit slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico
The Wilmot Proviso
This 1850 law required citizens to help return runaway slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act
This violent abolitionist killed pro-slavery settlers in Kansas at the Pottawatomie River. .
Who is John Brown.
This ruling said African Americans were not citizens and that Congress couldn’t ban slavery in the territories.
What is the Dred Scott decision.
This Illinois senator pushed the Kansas-Nebraska Act to support a transcontinental railroad.
Who is Stephen Douglas
This outlined the Southern view of the status of slavery in the territories where neither Congress nor territorial legislatures had the right to limit slavery. Accordingly only when a territory became a state could it prohibit slavery
What is the Calhoun Resolutions
This act opened two territories to popular sovereignty and effectively repealed the Missouri Compromise.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act
This event in Congress involved a Southern congressman beating Senator Charles Sumner with a cane.
What is the Brooks-Sumner Affair. Brooks canned Sumner with his cane.
This party formed in Wisconsin in 1854 to oppose the expansion of slavery.
What is the Republican Party.
This escaped slave became a prominent abolitionist and published his own newspaper.
Who is Frederick Douglas
This was a compromise reached between those who agreed with both Wilmot and Calhoun; Stated people living in that new territory should decide the status of slavery in their territory.
What is Popular Sovreignty
This compromise admitted California as a free state and allowed popular sovereignty in western territories.
Compromise of 1850
This 1859 raid aimed to spark a massive slave rebellion.
What is John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry.
This old political party collapsed largely due to sectional pressures.
What is the Whig Party
This individual won the election of 1852.
Who is Franklin Pierce.
These democrats were PRO popular sovreignty.
Lewis Cass and Stephen Douglas
This doctrine stated that slavery could be excluded from territories by local legislation—even if popular sovereignty passed it. Stephen Douglas was the architect of the this.
What is the Freeport Doctrine
The sacking of this small town started the almost "civil war" in Kansas.
The sacking of Lawrence Kansas.
This third party in 1848 supported free soil, free speech, and free men.
Free-Soil Party
Who were the candidates in the 1860 election.
Stephen Douglas
John Breckenridge
John Bell
Abraham Lincoln