Sectionalism

Admitted California as free state, UT and NM get popular sovereignty.

• Stephen Douglass

• Compromise of 1850

• Election of 1848

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Admitted to balance Texas.

• Oregon

• Maine

• Zachary Taylor

• Harper's Ferry

Written by Hinton Helper to argue slavery was hurting South.

• Bleeding Kansas

• Harper's Ferry

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• The Impending Crisis

Massachusetts Senator

• Preston Brooks

• Charles Sumner

• Zachary Taylor

• James Buchanan

Party that argued slavery cannot expand west but can stay put

• Free Soil Party

• Popular Sovereignty

• Know-Nothing Party

• Republican Party

Ran as a Republican candidate in 1860

• John Breckinridge

• Abraham Lincoln

• John Brown

• Dred Scott

Party that favored nativism

• Republican Party

• Democratic Party

• Know-Nothing Party

• Free Soil Party

Justice who argued against Dred Scott.

• Wilmot Proviso

• Roger Taney

• Charles Sumner

• James Buchanan

Proposed banning all blacks from the Mexican Cession

• Wilmot Proviso

• Bleeding Kansas

• Harper's Ferry

• Preston Brooks

Ran as Northern Democrat in 1860

• Dred Scott

• Stephen Douglas

• Roger Taney

• Zachary Taylor