Sectionalism Vocabulary

President of the Confederate States of America

• Jefferson Davis

• Confederate States of America

• Election of 1860

• Lincoln/Douglas Debates

A group of states from
the South that seceded
from the Union and
formed their
own country

• Jefferson Davis

• Confederate States of America

• Election of 1860

• Lincoln/Douglas Debates

Presidential election with four
candidates that resulted in
Abraham Lincoln’s victory,
despite not being on the ballot
in ten Southern states, which
led seven of these states to
secede from the Union

• Jefferson Davis

• Confederate States of America

• Election of 1860

• Lincoln/Douglas Debates

A series of seven debates between
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen
Douglas for a U.S. Senate seat from
Illinois, which largely centered on
discussions regarding the
westward expansion of slavery
and the Dred Scott decision

• Jefferson Davis

• Confederate States of America

• Election of 1860

• Lincoln/Douglas Debates

Lawyer and leader in the
Republican Party who gained
national attention during the U.S.
Senate race in Illinois and later
became the 16th President of
the United States

• Abraham Lincoln

• Dred Scott vs. Sanford

• Republican Party

• Nat Turner

Controversial Supreme Court decision
that declared African Americans
were never meant to be citizens and
could not obtain citizenship benefits
outlined in the U.S. Constitution, while
also declaring the Missouri
Compromise unconstitutional

• Abraham Lincoln

• Dred Scott vs. Sanford

• Republican Party

• Nat Turner

Political party consisting of
Democrats, Free-Soilers,
Whigs, and abolitionists that
was originally formed to
stop the spread of slavery
to the West

• Abraham Lincoln

• Dred Scott vs. Sanford

• Republican Party

• Nat Turner

Preacher who led an
armed and organized
rebellion of
enslaved
people in
Southampton
County, Virginia

• Abraham Lincoln

• Dred Scott vs. Sanford

• Republican Party

• Nat Turner

Preacher who led an
armed and organized
rebellion of
enslaved
people in
Southampton
County, Virginia

• Abraham Lincoln

• Dred Scott vs. Sanford

• Republican Party

• Nat Turner

Democratic Senator who
supported popular sovereignty,
introduced the Kansas-Nebraska
Act, and also opposed Abraham
Lincoln in elections for U.S. Senator
of Illinois and U.S. President

• Stephen Douglas

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Secede