Sectionalism

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  • Missouri Compromise

    Slaves states under (36th parrallel); free states over the line

  • Tariff of abomination

    Andrew Jackson Pissed SC, planting the root for successions

  • Nat Turner's Rebellion

  • Nullification Crisis

    SC (John Calhoun) tried to nullify the tariffs, but Jackson threatened with military action

  • Gag Rule

    Automatically silenced anti-slavery petitions in Congress (1836-44)

  • Annexation of Texas

    Led to Mexican-American War

  • Wilmot Proviso

    Proposed to ban slavery in land gained from Mexico
    States rejected
  • Period: to

    Mexican American War

    Gave US more land, exacerbating sectionalism (more slave and free states)

  • Compromise of 1850

    California as a free state
    New Mexico and Utah as official territories
    Ban slave trade in DC but in exchange for a new fugitive slave law
    Redifine Texas's border

  • Fugitive slave act

    Forced Northerners to return escaped slaves

  • Literature and Newspapers

    The Liberator: William Lloyd Garrison 1831
    The North Star: Fredrick Douglass 1847
    Uncle Tom's Cabin: Harriet Beecher Stowe 1852

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Stephen Douglas wanted to organize the land to build transcontinental railroad. The South senators resist because it would tip the balance of Missouri Compromise. Stephen Douglass proposed popular sovereignty in exchange, which repealed Missouri Compromise and created two new territories.

  • Republican Party

    Formed by anti-slavery Whigs and Democrats

  • Bleeding Kansas

    on and off 1855 ~ 1859

  • Bleeding Sumner

  • John Brown's Raid

  • Period: to

    Sucession of southern states