Unit 6- Prelude to War

This granted Popular Sovereignty to decide if these territories would be a free or slave state?

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

• Wilmot Proviso

This said states north of 36'30" would be free and those south would be slave.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

• Wilmot Proviso

Ended the Mexican-American War and forced Mexico to give up land.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

• Wilmot Proviso

A bill that wanted to keep all territories in the West that were gained from Mexico as free from slavery.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

• Wilmot Proviso

Nickname given to a territory because of the conflicts over slavery.

• Sectionalism

• Oregon Territory

• Bleeding Kansas

• Abolition

Putting goals of your area over goals of the Nation.

• Sectionalism

• Oregon Territory

• Bleeding Kansas

• Abolition

The area of the country that spurred the phrase 54'40" or FIGHT!

• Sectionalism

• Oregon Territory

• Bleeding Kansas

• Abolition

Wanting to end slavery.

• Sectionalism

• Oregon Territory

• Bleeding Kansas

• Abolition

The idea of people having the vote and majority rule.

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Nullification

• Popular Sovereignty

Allowed slave owners the right to go north and find their runaway slaves.

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Nullification

• Popular Sovereignty