Sectionalism LMS

An expanding railroad

system and

industrialization in the

North resulted in many

large factories.

• North

• South

• East

• West

geography and climate,

it was mainly an

agricultural society

with small farms and

plantations

• North

• West

• South

• East

allows the states to have

certain powers that were

not given to the Federal

government in the

Constitution

• 1st Amendment

• 5th Amendment

• 8th Amendment

• 10th Amendment

advocated

the Theory of Nullification

which believed that each

state had the right to not

obey federal laws and even

secede from the U.S. if the

state wanted to.

• James Madison

• James Monroe

• John Adams

• John C. Calhoun

allowed California to enter

the U.S. as a free state while

also passing a tighter

Fugitive Slave Law to make

the South happy.

• Dred Scott

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Compromise of 1850

• California Gold Rush

allowed southerners to

hunt down escaped slaves

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Compromise of 1850

• Underground Railroad

• Dred Scott

allowed

people within a

territory to vote on the

issue of slavery. Violence erupted

between the two

groups in what came to

be called “Bleeding

Kansas.”

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Boston Massacre

• Compromise of 1850

• The Acts

Party

was created to stop

slavery from spreading

from the states that

already allowed slavery.

• Democrat

• Republican

• Democrat-Republican

• Federalist

a slave who was

taken by his owner to the

North then back into the South, sued for his freedom

since at one point he was on

‘free ground’ in the North.

• Harriet Tubman

• Dred Scott v. Sanford

• Sojourner Truth

• Fredrick Douglas

led other slaves in a

violent rebellion that killed over

50 whites.

• Hundreds of slaves, including

Turner were killed, and whites

passed harsher slave codes that

were strict rules slaves had to

follow.

• Nat Turner

• Dred Scott

• Harriet Tubman

• Ralph Waldo Emerson