SECTIONALISM IN ANTEBELLUM UNITED STATES

IN Route to Civil War

Key Terms

loyalty to the interests of

one's own region or section of the country, rather than the nation

as a whole.

before or existing before the Civil War

Sectionalism Antebellum

Difference: North and the South

Northern States Southern States

Population 21.5 million 9 million

# of Factories 110,100 20,600

Miles of Railroads 21,700 9,000

Bank Deposits $207 million $47 million

Cotton Production 4 thousand bales 5 million bales

1. Missouri Compromise 1820 - 1821 The Missouri Compromise admitted

Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, and prohibited slavery in territory that later became Kansas and Nebraska.

2. Compromise of 1850

The compromise admitted California to the United States as a “free” state but allowed other territories to decide on slavery for themselves.

Also included the Fugitive Slave Act

Popular Sovereignty

doctrine under which the status of slavery in the territories was to be determined by the settlers themselves.

Was a means of avoiding sectional conflict over the slavery issue

Fugitive Slave Act

Gave slave-owners legal right to pursue their escaped slaves into “free states”.

Made it a federal offense to help free slaves or house them

Northerners react by becoming more anti-slavery

3. Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854 It allowed people in the territories of

Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.

Repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´.

New Republican Party Rises

Claimed to be decedents of the Democratic Republicans (Thomas Jefferson)

Opposed the spread of slavery Motto “Free soil, Free Labor, Free Men”

4. Dred Scott 1857

Scott V. Sandford Slaves were property

and could be taken anywhere without threat of being freed

African Americans were not citizens

declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional

5. John Brown’s Raid 1859

John Brown led a group to raid Harper’s Ferry, and National Arsenal, and attempted to free slaves

Failed and was hung Becomes known as a martyr to the North

6. Lincoln Elected President 1860 1856 joined new Republican Party Was not against slavery’s legality

(although thought it immoral Believed US must become all free or all

slave states , “a house divided against itself can not stand”

Lincoln was not on ballot in 9 southern states!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1860

7. Confederacy Formed

South Carolina secedes (leaves) the Union

The Confederate States of America were formed in February of 1861

Newspaper

You will create a newspaper addressing the following from either a Red or Blue perspective Compromise of 1850 Kansas-Nebraska Act Dred Scott Case Lincoln’s election John Brown’s Raid Formation of the Confederate States of America Slavery Farming events in the South(Invention of Cotton

Gin) Industrial Events in the North (