Sectionalism F&C

A movement to end slavery in the United States.

• transcendentalism

• suffrage

• abolition movement

• temperance movement

A law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

A law that allowed voters in Kansa and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery.

• Election of 1860

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Henry Clay's proposed agreement that allowed California to enter as a free state and divided the rest of the Mexico Cession territory into two territories where slavery was decided by popular sovereignty

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

An agreement proposed by Henry Clay that allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state and Maine to enter as a free state, it also outlawed slavery north of the 36 30 latitude line

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

Abraham Lincoln won causing southern states to start seceding starting with South Carolina which led to the start of the Civil War.

• Election of 1860

• Election of 1848

• Election of 1800

• Election of 1845

The idea that political power belongs to the people

• limited government

• republicanism

• popular sovereignty

• sectionalism

Favoring the interests of one section or region over the interests of the entire country.

• patriotism

• nationalism

• sectionalism

• transcendentalism

The antislavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that spoke out powerfully against slavery causing many northerners to support abolitionist.

• Gone with the Wind

• Underground Railroad

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Uncle Tom's Cabin