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Westward Expansion was from 1787-1861, and it was a very important event relating to nationalism. The westward expansion made all of the states want to expand west to try and get more land. This caused battles and fights, but as a country, everybody worked together to get the U.S. This relates to the Civil War by making the North and South get mad another for having more slave states than free states.
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The ⅗ Compromise related to sectionalism because the people living in the South had more slaves and more people. They can also have more representatives go into the House of Representatives and have a bigger voice. This means that for the northern states they have fewer slaves and have more people going toward taxation and not representation. They also wanted to have a bigger say in passing laws so they could have better lifestyles. This made everybody mad, which led to the Civil War. -
The States Rights happened on December 15, 1791, involving sectionalism because the Southern thought the U.S. government was too strong. And it was taking away the states of their sovereignty. This impacted the economy because the cash crops needed lots of labor, so white people were using slaves for free labor this was one of the major impacts of starting the Civil War. -
The Underground Railroad relates to nationalism because the free states gave the slaves room to take them in, making it unfair for those who bought the slaves, partly starting the Civil War. The railroad wasn't actually a railroad it was a group of people who helped slaves escape, but when the Fugitive Slave Act came out, it made it harder for the slaves to escape. But some of the slaves that did escape went to the Seminole tribe, and the tribe welcomed them in and gave them a place to stay.
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The Compromise of 1820 is related to nationalism because it was how Mouserii became a slave state. When Mouserii joined the U.S., it joined as a slave state, but the in the Senate, that wouldn't be fair. So they decided to split Masseuses and make Maine a free state. But the Louisiana Purchase still had more to come, so they made the compromise line 36º 30º states north of the line free, and the south were slave states. This provided more conflict, which added up to the start of the Civil War. -
Harriet Tubman was someone who helped slaves escape using the Underground Railroad. She helped 70 slaves get to free states and worked for 11 years, helping them escape. The work she did relates to nationalism because the slaves that did escape went to other free states making their population greater. This became unfair for the free states getting more people, witch led to the upcoming of the Civil War. -
The Compromise of 1850 happened on September 9, 1850, and it was related to nationalism because it made California come into the U.S. as a free state. Something else that happened was popular sovereignty that happened in UT and NM. The fugitive law got passed, Slave trade got banned. Texas gets $10 million and uses it to make a border with Mexico. All of this made the Northern and Southern states get more mad at each other and want to start the Civil War. -
The Fugitive Slave Law relates to nationalism because it makes all of the slaves in the country have to go back to their houses no matter what. This means that even slaves in the free states had to go back to their owners. When they passed this act, they decided to make the federal government have to control the runaway slaves and get them back to their owners. This was making the free states get mad because they had to give away their people, starting more conflicts relating to the Civil War. -
The Emancipation Proclamation was completely related to nationalism. I think this because President Abraham Licon made a proclamation in the middle of the civil war. He made it saying that if you had slaves in the slave states, then you would have to free them, making the whole country free. This made the slave states get very mad and want to fight for the slaves back, making some of them illegally have slaves.