US History - Chapter 15 - A Nation Divided

The idea that political power belongs to the people.

A document stating that “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of [the] territory.”

Antislavery northerners who formed a party that supported the Wilmot Proviso.

Favoring the interests of one section or region over the interests of the entire country.

Formally withdrawing from something - in this case, the South seceding from the Union.

California entered as a free state. The rest of the Mexican Session was divided into two territories -Utah and New Mexico, where the question of whether to allow slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty

Made it a crime to help runaway slaves and allowed officials to arrest those slaves in free areas.

An anti-slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Sold over 2 million copies in 10 years. Inflamed abolitionists’ feelings in the North.

Divide the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase into two territories - Kansas and Nebraska. It allowed the people in each territory to decide on the question of slavery.

Their platform was a reaction against the idea of states’ rights. John Bell was nominated as their presidential candidate.