Sectionalism & Expansion
The term for loyalty to one’s own region over the nation as a whole.
Sectionalism
According to the constitution at this time, slaves were counted as ________ of a person for the purposes of calculating population.
3/5
This person led a violent raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859, intending to start a slave revolt.
John Brown
This series of violent clashes occurred as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
"Bleeding Kansas"
This Republican the won 1860 presidential election despite not being included on the ballot in southern states.
Abraham Lincoln
This 1803 land purchase doubled the size of the United States.
The Louisiana Purchase
The Kansas-Nebraska Act introduced ___________ to decide the slavery issue in new territories.
Popular Sovreignty
This secret system helped enslaved people escape to freedom.
The Underground Railroad
The attack on this U.S. fort in April 1861 marked the official start of the Civil War.
Fort Sumter
This Illinois Senator promoted popular sovereignty in debates over slavery expansion.
Stephen A. Douglas
This 1845 event added a former Mexican territory as a slave state.
The Texas Annexation
This law required citizens to help capture runaway slaves.
The Fugitive Slave Act
This famous book by Harriet Beecher Stowe increased tensions between North and South.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
This state was the first to secede from the Union in December 1860.
South Carolina
This political party’s platform was to ban slavery in the territories but allow it where it already existed.
The Republican Party
This 1848 event gave the U.S. land, including California and New Mexico.
The Mexican Cession
This 1850 agreement added California as a free state and required the federal government to assist in capturing runaway slaves.
The Compromise of 1850
Name one form of everyday resistance enslaved people used against slavery.
Running away; slowing work; breaking tools; maintaining their own culture; practicing religion; learning to read & write
The formation of ____________________ in 1861 signaled the South’s break from the Union.
The Confederate States of America
This person was the president of the Confederate States of America.
Jefferson Davis
This new territory in 1846 was acquired through a treaty with Britain.
The Oregon Territory
The Missouri Compromise banned slavery north of this latitude line (except Missouri).
36°30′N
This preacher and slave led a major slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831.
Nat Turner
1857 Supreme Court decision said African Americans were not U.S. citizens and Congress could not ban slavery in the territories.
The Dred Scott Decision (Dred Scott v. Sanford)
Finish the quote: “_______________________. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.”
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."