Unit 5: Sectionalism

This economy was based on textile mills, factories, and immigrant labor (especially in large cities).

This economy was based on slave labor in a plantation system. The cash crop produced was primarily cotton.

This economy focused on mining precious metals and agriculture (farming and ranching with livestock).

Agreement that settled most conflicts between the free states and the slave states. This allowed California to become a state while a strict fugitive slave law was passed.

Law where escaped slaves and free blacks were at risk of being captured by slave hunters and returned to the southern states

This divided the Louisiana Purchase into two territories and allowed popular sovereignty to decide on slavery.

A political party formed in 1854 that united against the spread of slavery in the West

The idea that called for the voters in a new territory to decide whether to allow slavery