Sectionalism Part 1

This law required that northern states forcibly returned escaped slaves to their owners.

• Returned Property Ordinance
• Fugitive Slave Law
• Underground Railroad
• Bounty Hunters Alliance

This Act set up territory west of Missouri. Each state would use popular sovereignty to decide what to do about slavery. People who were pro-slavery and antislavery moved to Kansas, but some antislavery settlers were against the Act. This began fighting in the area.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Nullification Act
• Bleeding Heart Act
• Manifest Destiny

Supreme Court case which ruled that slaves are not citizens but are property, affirmed that property cannot be interfered with by Congress, slaves do not become free if they travel to free territories or states, fueled abolitionist movement, hailed as victory for the south.

• Brown vs Board of Education
• Dred Scott Decision
• John Brown Court Case
• Confederate Convict Clause

(1856) a series of violent fights between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces in Kansas who had moved to Kansas to try to influence the decision of whether or not Kansas would a slave state or a free state.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Kentucky Massacre
• Bleeding Kansas
• The Civil War

Well-known abolitionist. used violence to stop slavery immediately, involved in the Pottawatomie Massacre, he was tried, convicted of treason and hung after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1858)

• John Brown
• Henry Clay
• Dred Scott
• Daniel Webster

Primarily focused on industrial enterprise. Business and industry played major roles. Life was faster and commerce important.

• The North
• The South
• The West

Primarily agricultural. The economy was primarily based upon the existence of large family farms known as plantations. The plantation economy relied on cheap labor in the form of slaves to produce tobacco & cotton. Farmers did not want to do the work themselves.

• The North
• The South
• The West

Primarily wilderness and frontier land, it did not have a significant population besides the Native American Indians.  Their focus was not yet involved in the turmoil of slavery.

• The North
• The South
• The West

States' Rights, Slavery, Tariffs, & Sectionalism were the major issues that led to the start of:

• The Republic of Texas
• World War I
• World War II
• The Civil War

What crop became "King" in the South as a result of Eli Whitney's invention?

• Tobacco
• Ice Cream
• Cotton
• Corn