Sectionalism

Taxes placed on imported goods, often to raise prices and thus protect domestic producers. "Manufacturers, workers, and farmers seek to ensure their prosperity through these taxes on imports...."

• Nullification
• Sectionalism
• Tariffs
• Compromises

An agreement proposed by Henry Clay that allowed one state to enter the Union as a slave state and another to enter as a free state and outlawed slavery in any territories or states north of 36°30´ latitude.

• Compromise of 1820
• Peace Agreement of 1820
• Clay Compromise Agreement
• Secession

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

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

(1) California admitted as free state, (2) territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico, (3) resolution of Texas-New Mexico boundaries, (4) federal assumption of Texas debt, (5) slave trade abolished in DC, and (6) new fugitive slave law; advocated by Henry Clay and Stephen A. Douglas

• Compromise of 1820
• Missouri Compromise
• The New Deal
• Compromise of 1850

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

Notion that the people of a territory should determine if they want to be a slave state or a free state by voting.

• Secession
• Popular Sovereignty
• Nullification
• Abolition

South Carolina Senator - advocate for state's rights, limited government, and nullification

• John C. Calhoun
• Frederick Douglas
• James Farmer
• Henry Clay