Sectionalism #1
(1830) Rebellion against slave owners by Nat Turner and other slaves. 56 people died.
Nat Turner Rebellion
States having rights to make decisions best for their state.
States' Rights
People choosing within their territory.
Popular Sovereignty
Non-violent disobedience such as not paying taxes.
civil disobedience
President of the Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
(1858) Lincoln challenged Senator Stephen Douglas to debate about the spread of slavery.
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Critics of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, formed a political party to oppose slavery.
Republican Party
Former slave and abolitionist, encouraged the Underground Railroad
Frederick Douglass
(1857) Dred Scott, a southern slave, was taken North by his owner and then back to the south. He sued for his freedom.
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Let Southern slave owners hunt down slaves who escaped to the North.
Greater loyalty many Americans felt toward their own section of the U.S.
Sectionalism
Henry Clay’s last great compromise. Resulting in California becoming a free state.
Compromise of 1850
(1854) congress passed law to allow settlers to decide to permit slavery or not.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Fort Sumpter
A vast network of people who helped fugitive slaves escaping to the North or Canada
Underground Railroad
Believed in slavery being wrong and fought to end it.
Abolitionists