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WE, the U.S.’s acquisition & migration (propelled by Manifest Destiny) to western territories past the Mississippi River, caused heated conflict whether the territories, now states, should support free or slave representation. It escalated strain between the abolitionists & enslavers, heightening sectionalism as the sides argued over states to gain a louder voice in Senate to support their own economies and well beings, not for peace in the nation - the basis of the Civil War.
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The ⅗ Compromise held the U.S.’s North & South, fighting over whether slaves should be added to a states’ representation (South) or taxation (North), together. The agreement decreed that ⅗ of a states’ slave population would be included in both representation & taxation. As each side’s needs were met halfway, they made peace with the heated debate at end, temporarily keeping the nation and its government together - maintaining some nationalism to stall the Civil War from happening. -
Amendment 10 decreed powers not constitutionally given to the federal govt were the states.’ However, the South believed the national govt was becoming tyrannical as some decisions favoring the abolitionists effected their states’ finances - reliant on slave labor. They felt Amendment 10 was being violated and wanted more state rights & a weaker federal govt. To gain these, the South seceded from the U.S causing the Civil War as the North fought to reunite the split made by sectionalism. -
The Missouri Compromise maintained balance between slave & free states in Senate (threatened by the western expansion), creating a 36º30’N line as separation. The line divided the U.S. into distinct sections beginning clear tensions of sectionalism between the North & South. They not only had conflicting needs & beliefs but were now cleaved physically. & as new western territory was acquired, the states' balance favored the North, angering the South. The tensions increased to the Civil War. -
The Compromise of 1850, five laws addressing issues over slavery & Texas’s border, prescribed the Fugitive Slave Law, stating slaves had to be restored to their owners in free and slave states - partial to the South. The North was forced to actively hunt slaves, opposing their belief all people should be free. This led to more use of the Underground Railroad, angering in the South, who feared losing their slaves would impact their economy. Anger grew on both sides escalating to the Civil War. -
The K-N Act rid of the Missouri Compromise, created the K-N territories, and permitted popular sovereignty for all states, causing people to move into Kansas to influence the vote determining whether the state was free or slave. The fight between the abolitionists & enslavers over the vote went violent in “Bleeding Kansas,” causing a train of bloody events of retaliation leading to the Civil War. The bloodshed increased hatred and sectionalism on the opposing sides, breaking the nation apart. -
The HF raid's purpose was to capture a federal arsenal to give its weapons to slaves for revolution to abolish slavery. Led by John Brown, the raid was unsuccessful but installed terror in the South of the Southern death & financial loss would result if the slaves got HF's weaponry. The South, seeing Brown as a maniac, were alienated from the North, who viewed him as a hero. This strengthened the South's negative opinions of the North leading to an increase of sectionalism & to the Civil War. -
11 slave states seceded or freely pulled out from the U.S. to become a separate nation - disagreements with the North & the federal govt reached its peak. Secession was caused by sectionalism as the South solely cared for its states' economy & people, ignoring the impact of cutting off on the entire nation. Secession partially caused the Civil War because the nationalistic North wanted to fight to force the slave states into rejoining the U.S. while the South wanted to keep the Confederacy. -
The EP, a presidential decree to abolish slavery from slave states, defined the Union’s main and nationalistic objective to reunite the North & the South to the U.S. who’s shared interest was abolishing slavery under a federal govt (which happened under their victory). Thus, they wanted to prevent the Confederacy from establishing its separate nation, causing the North to war in the Civil War to regain the seceded slave states. The EP encouraged the fight for nationalism.