Sectionalism

Favoring the interests of one region over the interests of the entire country

• Secede

• Tariff

• Sectionalism

• Popular Sovereignty

Formally withdrawing from the Union

• Popular Sovereignty

• Confederate States

• Secede

• Tariff

Power belongs to the people to vote to make decisions

• Popular Sovereignty

• Confederate States

• Sectionalism

• secede

Which compromise kept slavery south of 36, 30?

• Minnesota Compromise

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

Which of the following is NOT a provision of the Compromise of 1850?

• the lands of the Mexican Cession would decided slavery on the basis of popular sovereignty

• California would become a free state

• Missouri would become a slave state

• a more effective fugitive slave law would be passed

According to the Fugitive Slave Act

• enslaved African Americans could not testify at hearings to determine if they were runaways

• commissioners who decided if an African American was slave or free wer paid $5 to free a slave, but were paid $10 to returna slave to a slaveholder

• People who hid or helped a runaway slave faced 6 months in jail or a $1,000 fine

• all of the above

One effect of the Fugitive Slave Act was

• enslaved people were free when they got to New York

• more slaves received educations

• more southerners freed slaves because they thought the Act was unfair

• more northerners joined the abolition movement because they were outraged at how unfair it was

Northerners were angry about the Kansas – Nebraska Act because

• they saw it as an attempt to spread slavery into what should have been free territory according to the Missouri Compromise

• they liked Maine better

• they wanted Kansas to become a reservation for Native Americans

• they thought the abolitionists were going to take control of the federal territories

The Compromise of 1850 was proposed because which territory was applying for statehood

• Kansas

• Nebraska

• Texas

• California

Why did anti-slavery and pro-slavery groups encourage people to move to Kansas?

• To keep the population of antislavery and pro-slavery people equal.

• They wanted to create a peaceful union between the two groups.

• The slavery question was going to be decided by the voters in the state.

• The group with the largest armies would decide the slavery question.