Road to the Civil War

Loyalty to the interests of your own region or section of the country, rather than the nation as a whole

• compromise

• sectionialism

• emancipation

• statehood

This Compromise allowed California to join the Union as a free state.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• California Compromise

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

What was the Fugitive Slave Act?

• Slaves who were found guilty of a crime had to be put in prison.

• Slaves who escaped to free territory were now free.

• Slaves who escaped were property that had to be returned to their owners.

• Slaves who fought with one another could be punished.

The Missouri Compromise allowed Missouri...

• to join the Union as a slave state, and Maine as a free state.

• to join the Union as a free state, and Maine as a slave state.

• to join the Union as a state with popular sovereignty.

• to abolish slavery.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act gave states

• emancipation

• amendments

• popular sovereignty

• democracy

This was a secret system that helped slaves escape to freedom in the North.

• Slave Codes

• Route 66

• Underground Railroad

• Certificates of Freedom

Most Northern AND Southern families lived

• on plantations

• in the city

• in town

• on small farms

Small farms, plantations, slave labor, fertile soil, cash crops

• North

• South

• East

• West

Abraham Lincoln believed slavery

• should be banned from new territories

• should be banned everywhere in the United States

• should be legal in the West

• should be allowed in the North

The Supreme Court ruled in the Dred Scott case that slaves were

• free

• fugitives

• property

• emancipated