SECTIONALISMSTATION 4

3 Key Compromises as US expands

Missouri Compromise 1820- Missouri entered the Union as a slave state,

Maine entered as a free state. Compromise of 1850-

California was admitted as free state and enacted a stiffer fugitive slave law to make it easier to capture runaways.

Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854- POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY- allowing residents

to vote whether to legalize slavery or not.

Divisions between North and South increase

“Bleeding Kansas”- A mini-civil war broke out in Kansas, people from

Missouri come in to Kansas and voted illegally, making slavery legal

John Brown- Abolitionists rode into proslavery settlement and

killed five men as revenge for “Sack of Lawrence” proslavery men burnt down homes.

South Carolina Secession- After years of unfair tariff and increased prices on

imports, SC secedes after election victory of Abraham Lincoln.

Economic Differences-

South –Farming North-IndustryWest -Farming

Missouri CompromiseMaine –Free

Missouri -Slave

Compromise of 1850

California-FreeSouth – Fugitive

Slave Act

Kansas –Nebraska Act-Popular SovereigntyState decide free or slave

S. Carolina Seccession

-breaks away from

Union

Bleeding Kansas –

Mini-civil war breaks out

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Here is what gets asked on the Final:

From 1820-1865, the debates over nullification, protective tariffs, and the spread of slavery in the new territories concerned? Balance of power between the federal and state

governments. In the Compromise of 1850 and Kansas-Nebraska Act,

popular sovereignty was a way to? Allow settlers in new territories to vote on the issue of slavery.

One way that Bleeding Kansas, the Dred Scott case and John Brown’s actions had a similar effect to? Made compromise more difficult between the north and south.

Increased sectionalism, states rights, break down in compromise, and election of Lincoln lead to? Secession of Southern States from the Union.