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Sectionalism
restriction of interest to a narrow sphere; undue concern with local interests or petty distinctions at the expense of general well-being. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri compromise was a reserved balance in Congress between slave states and free states. Congress Added Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state to keep balance in congress. -
Free Soil Party
Nominated ex president Martin Van Buren
"Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Labor and Free Men" -
Compromise of 1850
Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions in 1850, in an attempt to seek a compromise between the North and South. As part of the Compromise , the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. -
Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding people and Northern Free-Soilers
Fugitive- a person who has escaped from a place or is in hiding, especially to avoid arrest or persecution. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to use popular sovereignty to decide weather or not they allowed slavery within their borders. It was the states' rights as to whether or not they wanted slavery within their walls.Border Ruffians crossed the state border into Kansas to force the acceptance of slavery.
Popular Sovereignty- the people get to help make the decisions
Border ruffians- pro-slavery activists from the slave state of Missouri -
“Bleeding Kansas”-Sacking of Lawrence
The Sacking of Lawrence occurred on May 21, 1856, when pro-slavery activists, led by Douglas County Sheriff Samuel J. Jones, attacked anti-slavery settlers from Massachusetts who were hoping to make Kansas a "free state". -
Dred Scott Decision
the United States Supreme Court issued a decision in the Dred Scott case, affirming the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the Western territories. Slaves were considered property that could not be taken away. -
Lincoln Douglas Debates
The Lincoln–Douglas debates were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate -
Raid on Harpers Ferry (John Brown)
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was an effort by abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Brown's party of 22 was defeated by a company of U.S. Marines, led by First Lieutenant Israel Greene -
Election of Lincoln
Lincoln won the party's presidential nomination. In the November 1860 election, Lincoln again faced Douglas, who represented the Northern faction of a heavily divided Democratic Party, as well as Breckinridge and Bell. -
Lincoln Inaugural Address
Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address was delivered on Monday, March 4, 1861, as part of his taking of the oath of office for his first term as the sixteenth President of the United States -
Attack on Fort Sumter
Attack of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederate States Army, and the return gunfire surrender by the United States Army, that started the American Civil War -
Seceding from the Union
The Confederate States decided secession was the best idea so they seceded from the union when they were defeated in the civil war
Secede- withdraw formally from membership in a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization
