Chapter 15 A Divided Nation

A belief that ultimate power resides in the people. Resident voters make decisions concerning slavery in their region

• Popular Sovereignty
• Wilmot Proviso
• Sectionalism
• Free Soil Party

1846 proposal that outlawed slavery in any new US territory gained from the War with Mexico

• Popular Sovereignty
• Wilmot Proviso
• Sectionalism
• Free Soil Party

Loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole.

• Popular Sovereignty
• Wilmot Proviso
• Sectionalism
• Free Soil Party

A political party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery.

• Popular Sovereignty
• Wilmot Proviso
• Sectionalism
• Free Soil Party

California admitted as a free state, slave trade abolished in DC and a new fugitive slave law were part of this.

• Compromise of 1850
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Anthony Burns
• Uncle Tom's Cabin

A law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves and punished people who did help them.

• Compromise of 1850
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Anthony Burns
• Uncle Tom's Cabin

An American enslaved African who ran away and was arrested in Boston. His arrest became the center of violent protests by northern opponents of the Fugitive Slave Act.

• Compromise of 1850
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Anthony Burns
• Uncle Tom's Cabin

Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Compromise of 1850
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Anthony Burns
• Harriet Beecher Stowe

14th President of the United States, elected in 1852

• Franklin Pierce
• Stephen Douglas
• Charles Sumner
• James Buchanan

Introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act, popularized the idea of popular sovereignty, and ran against Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 presidential election.

• Franklin Pierce
• Stephen Douglas
• Charles Sumner
• James Buchanan