Road to Civil War

An abolitionist led his men to an arsenal in Virginia with plans of starting a slave rebellion. They seized the federal arsenal but his plan did not work; he was captured & executed.

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Denmark Vesey

• John Brown

Allowed California to enter the Union as a free state, outlawed the slave trade in Washington D.C., gave popular sovereignty in New Mexico & Utah, & created a new tougher Fugitive Slave Law.

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Bleeding Kansas

A state that did not permit slavery

• Free State

• Bleeding Kansas

• Slave State

• Abolitionist

 Pride in one’s nation that creates unity in the whole nation. 

• Secession

• Sectionalism

• Nationalism

A person who wants to end or abolish slavery

• Abolitionist

• Secession

• Popular Sovereignty

• nullify

People have the power to decide through elections and voting. 

• Missouri Compromise

• Nationalism

• Popular Sovereignty

• Bleeding Kansas

Fighting between pro-slavery and abolitionists in Kansas that resulted in possibly 200 deaths.

• Bleeding Kansas

• Denmark Vesey

• Westward Expansion

• Compromise of 1850

A publication that caused readers to be sympathetic towards slaves and increased the Abolitionist Movement. 

• John Brown

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Popular Sovereignty

• Bleeding Kansas

A formal withdrawal from a country or government. 

• Sectionalism

• Nationalism

• Nullify

• Secession

To refuse to enforce or obey (ignore)

• nullify

• compromise

• abolish