Sectionalism Vocabulary Quiz

An open seat in the Senate for the state of Illinois led to a series of discussions on the issue of slavery.

• Missouri Compromise

• Presidential Election of 1860

• Kansas Nebraska Act

• Lincoln-Douglas Debates

An 1854 decision that allowed the new states of Nebraska and Kansas to decide the issue of slavery in their states through popular sovereignty.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Lincoln-Douglas Debates

• Nullification Crisis

Fighting that occurred over whether to enter the Union as a free state or as a slave state.

• Secession

• Bleeding Kansas

• Compromise of 1850

• Dred Scott Decision

Balanced power in the Senate and divided the Louisiana Territory into free and slave sections at the 36° 30′ line.

• Louisiana Purchase

• Sectionalism

• Missouri Compromise

• Abolitionists

A network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and to Canada.

• Underground Railroad

• Slave owners

• Ku Klux Klan

• Bleeding Kansas

Escaped slave who became a leading abolitionist and publisher.

• Abraham Lincoln

• Frederick Douglass

• Dred Scott

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

Law that decreed that escaped slaves who had been caught had to be returned to their owners.

• Popular Sovereignty

• Bleeding Kansas

• Secession

• Fugitive Slave Act

Militant abolitionist leader who was executed for trying to start a slave revolt at Harper’s Ferry.

• Abraham Lincoln

• Dred Scott

• John Brown

• Harriet Tubman

People who fought against the continuation of slavery and other reform movements.

• Slave runners

• Abolitionists

• Freedom riders

• Secessionists

Putting the interests of the nation behind those of one’s own region.

• Sectionalism

• Secession

• Nationalism

• Patriotism