Sectionalism Vocab Review

a federal legislation of the that balanced desires of northern states to prevent expansion of slavery in the country with those of southern states to expand it

• Missouri Compromise

• Perfect Equilibrium

• Oregon Treaty of 1846

• Compromise of 1850

a balance between the number of slave and free states

• Election of 1860

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Perfect Equilibrium

• Popular Sovereignty

called for the admission of California as a "free state," provided for a territorial government for Utah and New Mexico, established a boundary between Texas and the United States, called for the abolition of slave trade in Washington, DC, and amended the Fugitive Slave Act.

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Treaty of Guadalupe-Hildago

• Scott v Sanford

11th president

• James K Polk

• JFK

• Abraham Lincoln

• Andrew Jackson

1. the desire of the United States to expand its territory from coast to coast

• Manifest Destiny

• Oregon Treaty of 1846

• Mexican-American War

• Missouri Compromise

an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848.

• Civil War

• Mexican American War

• War of 1812

• Mexican Cession

1st election of Abraham Lincoln that caused the Confederate states to secede from the Union.

• Election of 1860

• Election of 1861

• Election of 2022

• Obama

 the idea that states could decide for themselves to be a slave or free state.

• Scott v Sanford

• Election of 1860

• Popular Sovereignty

• Manifest Destiny

a deal that formalized the border between the United States and British North America west of the Rocky Mountains.

• Manifest Destiny

• Oregon Treaty of 1846

• Mexican Cession

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago

supreme court decided that no enslaved or free black could be a citizen of the United States, and congress could not prohibit slavery in federal territories.

• Brown v Board

• Marbury v Madison

• Scott v Sanford

• Roe v Wade