Sectionalism

This compromise admitted one slave state, and one free state. Additionally, it designated the status of future states in the region as off limits to slavery or open to slavery.

• Maine Compromise

• Louisiana Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

This compromise admitted California as a free state a year after the gold rush:

• The Missouri Compromise

• The Compromise of 1850

• The Nullification Crisis

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

This region was known for large scale agriculture.

• The North

• The South

• The West

The Fugitive Slave Act was part of the

​ (a)   and caused many Northerners to ​ (b)   .

• Compromise of 1850

• join the abolition movement

• Missouri Compromise

• Nullification Crisis

• cooperate with Southern slave owners

• run for Congress

The growing division between the anti-slavery states and the pro-slavery states was known as

• the American System

• Temperance

• Sectionalism

• Manifest Destiny

Sectionalism can be defined as

• Differences that arise between different regions of a country economically, culturally, or politically, for example

• Migration patterns that occur as people leave one part of a country for another part

• One part of a country choosing to break ties with the rest of the nation in order to be independent

• A regions decision to be economically self-sufficient

What does Sectionalism mean?

• A loyalty to a belief in one's section/region of the U.S.

• A loyalty to a belief in one's house.

• An opposition to a belief in one's section/region of the U.S.

• A disagreement to a living in one's section/region of the U.S.

What is the definition of sectionalism?

• The loyalty to one's section or region instead of the country as a whole.

• The practice of forming political alliances between different sections of a country.

• The practice of forming economic partnerships between different sections of a country.

What is sectionalism?

• When people of a country are united around a common cause

• When people from different regions of a country care more about their region than the unity of the country

• When the economy hits a downturn because of a lack of trade between regions

• When there are parts of the country that separate (secede)

is when people are more concerned about their region/group, rather than the whole country.

• Sectionalism

• Manifest Destiny

• Republic