Sectionalism Timeline by Chelece Clark

By Chelece
  • Period: to

    1800-1860

  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise
    Missouri can be a slave state,but any territory north of 36 degrees 30' latitude line prohibited slavery. Most of the Louisiana territory is slave.

  • Tariiff Act of 1828

    Tariiff Act of 1828
    Andrew Jackson passed an act where the south has to pay taxes from imported goods from other countries.

  • Abolitionism

    Abolitionism
    Abolitionists helped slaves escape from the south to the north to be free.

  • Nulification Act

    Nulification Act
    The south refused to pay the tariffs of 1828 and 1832.

  • Force Bill

    Force Bill
    President Jackson had the power to use the military to make South Carolina pay the tariffs.

  • Fugitive Slave Act

    Fugitive Slave Act
    The North must return escaped slaves to the south.

  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850
    California wants permission to join the Union as a free state. It upsets the balance between free and slave states.

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Kansas-Nebraska Act
    Kansas and Nebraska had the right whether they want to be slave states or free states.

  • Bleeding Kansas

    Bleeding Kansas
    It was political confrontations between anti and pro-slavery elements.

  • Raid on Harpers Ferry

    Raid on Harpers Ferry
    An abolitionist named John Brown tried to start an armed slave revolt by seizing an arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virgina.