U4T2 Events Leading to the Civil War Vocab

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Missouri Compromise details: Missouri as slave state, Maine as free state, slavery banned north of 36° 30'.

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Missouri: slave state; Maine: free state; slavery prohibited north of 36° 30'.

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Wilmot Proviso assertion

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Slavery would not exist in the newly acquired Mexican Cession.

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Sectionalism refers to the division of the nation by sections based on sectional interests rather than the interests of the whole country.

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Division by sectional interests.

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Compromise of 1850: California admitted as a free state; residents of Mexican Cession territories could vote on slavery.

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California was admitted as a free state and residents of the territories of the Mexican Cession could vote on slavery.

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Established by the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850:

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A department for arresting and returning fugitive slaves.

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

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A best-selling novel about the evils of slavery by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

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Kansas-Nebraska Act details

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California as a free state; slavery decided by popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska.

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Result of Bleeding Kansas conflict?

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Residents of Kansas could vote on slavery, causing civil unrest and deaths.

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Significance of the Dred Scott Decision?

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A slave sued for freedom; Supreme Court ruled he couldn't sue as he was property, not a citizen.

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Lincoln-Douglas Debates

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Debates where Lincoln and Douglas argued about slavery, further dividing the nation.