What is one provision of the Missouri Compromise?
Missouri=slave, state Maine=free state, and No slaves north of the 36'30 line Missouri southern border.
Define Sectionalism
Loyalty to one part of the country at the expense of the whole
What did both the north and south get in the Compromise of 1850?
North= California is a free state, South= the Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Act forced what part of the country to help capture slaves?
The north
The physical geography (warm, fertile soil, flat land) allowed large scale agriculture and plantations in this part of the United States
The South
What happened in the first half of the 19th century to give the north a much greater population than the south?
Urbanization
This book by Harriet Beacher Stowe showed the horrible treatment of slaves
What is "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
The economic system in the North was based on this
Industrial/factory production
What type of people did the north use for paid labor instead of slaves?
Immigrants
Who was responsible for publishing the anti-slavery newspaper The North Star?
Fredrick Douglass
What are the names of the great three compromisers, and what region did each come from
Clay(West) Calhoun(South) Webster (north)
This Cheif Justice of the Supreme Court ruled against Dred Scott
Who is Roger Taney?
Who was the candidates supported by the North and in the election of 1860?
Abraham Lincoln