Unit 7: Sectionalism Vocabulary

Slave Codes

• Laws that controlled the lives of enslaved African Americans and denied them basic rights

  
  

• A person who advocated or supported the abolition of slavery in the U.S. 

  
  

• The political doctrine that the people who lived in a region should determine for themselves the nature of their government.

  
  

• loyalty to one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole.

  
  

Compromise of 1850

• Allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders (popular sovereignty).

  
  

• Required that the federal government be responsible for finding, returning, and trying escaped slaves that had fled to free states.

  
  

• An American abolitionist who believed in and advocated armed insurrection as the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States.

  
  

• An agreement between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions about the balance of free and slave states--California enters as a free state, Texas as a slave state, slave trade banned in Washington D.C., and stronger fugitive slave law enforced.

  
  

Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Laws that controlled the lives of enslaved African Americans and denied them basic rights

  
  

• An agreement between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions about the balance of free and slave states--California enters as a free state, Texas as a slave state, slave trade banned in Washington D.C., and stronger fugitive slave law enforced.

  
  

• Allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders (popular sovereignty).

  
  

• The political doctrine that the people who lived in a region should determine for themselves the nature of their government.

  
  

Sectionalism

• Required that the federal government be responsible for finding, returning, and trying escaped slaves that had fled to free states.

  
  

• loyalty to one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole.

  
  

• Laws that controlled the lives of enslaved African Americans and denied them basic rights

  
  

• The political doctrine that the people who lived in a region should determine for themselves the nature of their government.

  
  

John Brown

• ruled (7–2) that a slave (Dred Scott) who had resided in a free state and territory (where slavery was prohibited) was not thereby entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States; and that the Missouri Compromise (1820), which had declared free all territories west of Missouri and north of latitude 36°30′, was unconstitutional.

  
  

•  The political doctrine that the people who lived in a region should determine for themselves the nature of their government.

  
  

• An American abolitionist who believed in and advocated armed insurrection as the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States.

  
  

• Allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders (popular sovereignty).

  
  

popular sovereignty

• loyalty to one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole.

  
  

• The political doctrine that the people who lived in a region should determine for themselves the nature of their government.

  
  

• Laws that controlled the lives of enslaved African Americans and denied them basic rights

  
  

• Required that the federal government be responsible for finding, returning, and trying escaped slaves that had fled to free states.

  
  

Fugitive Slave Act

• Allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders (popular sovereignty).

  
  

• ruled (7–2) that a slave (Dred Scott) who had resided in a free state and territory (where slavery was prohibited) was not thereby entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States; and that the Missouri Compromise (1820), which had declared free all territories west of Missouri and north of latitude 36°30′, was unconstitutional.

  
  

• An agreement between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions about the balance of free and slave states--California enters as a free state, Texas as a slave state, slave trade banned in Washington D.C., and stronger fugitive slave law enforced.

  
  

• Required that the federal government be responsible for finding, returning, and trying escaped slaves that had fled to free states.

  
  

Dred Scott v. Sanford

• An American abolitionist who believed in and advocated armed insurrection as the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States.

  
  

• ruled (7–2) that a slave (Dred Scott) who had resided in a free state and territory (where slavery was prohibited) was not thereby entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States; and that the Missouri Compromise (1820), which had declared free all territories west of Missouri and north of latitude 36°30′, was unconstitutional.

  
  

• Required that the federal government be responsible for finding, returning, and trying escaped slaves that had fled to free states.

  
  

• loyalty to one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole.

  
  

An agreement between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions about the balance of free and slave states--California enters as a free state, Texas as a slave state, slave trade banned in Washington D.C., and stronger fugitive slave law enforced.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• John Brown

• Compromise of 1850

• Dred Scott v. Sanford

Allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders (popular sovereignty).

• Compromise of 1860

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

• Slave Codes

• Kansas-Nebraska Act