Sectionalism

What is the Missouri Compromise?

• Rewarding supporters with Government jobs

• Maintains the balance of power between slave and free states

• South Carolina attempts to cancel a federal law and threatens to secede

• Helped fugitive slaves get to the North and Canada

Henry Clay was the Leader of the...

• West, proposed the Missouri Compromise, supported tariffs

• South, defended slavery and state's rights, opposed tariffs

• North, focused on Manufacturing, anti-slavery

Daniel Webster was the Leader of the...

• West, proposed the Missouri Compromise, supported tariffs

• South, defended slavery and state's rights, opposed tariffs

• North, focused on Manufacturing, anti-slavery

John C Calhoun was the Leader of the...

• West, proposed the Missouri Compromise, supported tariffs

• South, defended slavery and state's rights, opposed tariffs

• North, focused on Manufacturing, anti-slavery

Economy of the West

• Plantation agriculture, slavery

• Manufacturing and Industry

• Farming and Mining

Economy of the North

• Plantation agriculture, slavery

• Manufacturing and Industry

• Farming and Mining

Economy of the South

• Plantation agriculture, slavery

• Manufacturing and Industry

• Farming and Mining

Sectionalism

• Loyalty to the Southern half of the US

• Loyalty to the Northern half of the US

• Loyalty to one's own section of the country

What was the Compromise of 1850?

• Missouri enters as a slave state, maintains the balance of power between slave and free states

• California added as a free state, Utah and New Mexico territories can choose if they want slavery or not

• Movement to end alcohol abuse

What was popular sovereignty?

• Allowed states in the north to vote for slavery

• Allowed states in the south to abolish slavery

• Allowed territories in the west to vote whether they wanted slavery or not