Sectionalism

8. That the normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of freedom; That as our Republican fathers, when they had abolished slavery in all our national territory, ordained that "no person should be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law," it becomes our duty, by legislation, whenever such legislation is necessary, to maintain this provision of the Constitution against all attempts to violate it; and we deny the authority of Congress, of a territorial legislature, or of any individuals, to give legal existence to Slavery in any Territory of the United States.

1.    This excerpt explains that the Republican Party desired - 

• To expand the territory of American to the Pacific Ocean

• To give citizens free land to settle territory that has not yet become a state

• To prevent slavery from spreading to territories in the United States

• To start a nation separate from the southern states

 

Henry Clay believed the South should accept the compromise of 1850 because -

• Our nation would be preserved as one

•    California would be a slave state

• Native American lands would be given to Anglo farmers

•   It would give the nation the Fugitive Slave Law

Lincoln elected as president in 1860 lead to ?

• Ulysses S. Grant becomes general of the Union Army

•   South Carolina secedes from the Union

•   The 13^th Amendment is passed by Congress

•   The Kansas-Nebraska Act results in bloodshed

Northerners responded to this by

•   Joining the Abolition Movement

• Writing letters to their congressmen supporting this law

• Enlisting in the military to fight against southern slave holders

•    Moving to Mexico where slavery was illegal

1.    Jefferson Davis is significant to American history because he-

• Worked to get California admitted to the Union as a free state

• Made the Supreme Court ruling on the Dred Scott V. Sandford case

•   Served as the president of the Confederate States of America

•   Served as a congressman from Massachusetts

“Physically speaking, we can not separate. We can not remove our respective sections from each other nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but the different parts of our country can not do this. They can not but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them.”

 

Abraham Lincoln

First Inaugural Address, 1861

According to this excerpt Abraham Lincoln holds that -

• Slavery should be allowed to spread to western territories

•   The Unites States should seek to acquire more land from Mexico

•   The 13 Colonies should not have seceded from Britain

•   Despite differences all our states must remain a part of the Union

1. Compromise of 1850

2. California is a free state

3. ?

1.    Which of the following best completes this chart?

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Nullification Crisis

•   Dred Scott v. Sandford

• South Carolina Secedes

“A free [African America] of the African race, whose ancestors were brought to this county and sold as slaves, is not a “citizen” within the meaning of the Constitution of the United States.”

 

Chief Justice Roger Taney

Dred Scott v. Sandford Ruling. 1856

In this excerpt the Supreme Court ruled that Africa Americans

• Are no longer slaves, and no longer legal property of their former masters

•   Have the legal right to suffrage in federal elections

• Are not legally considered citizen

• Have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

Economic Activity 1850

Region Economy

North ?

South Agriculture

West Mining

• Agriculture

• factories

• fur trading

• oil

1.    Once result of the Kansas-Nebraska act was -

•   Americans were united over the democratic process

• Slavery was outlawed across the United States

•    Americans fought against each other over the issue of slavery

• African Americans were ruled to be property