STAAR Review Day 9: Sectionalism

Ruled slaves were property and not citizens

• Sectionalism

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Dredd Scott v. Sandford

• Compromise of 1850

North and South agreed, California was admitted as a free state but a strict fugitive slave act was passed

• Sectionalism

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Dredd Scott v. Sandford

• Compromise of 1850

Geography caused country to develop economic differences

• Sectionalism

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Dredd Scott v. Sandford

• Compromise of 1850

Attempted to solve the issue of slavery through popular sovereignty, violence erupted as a result of the law.

• Sectionalism

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Dredd Scott v. Sandford

• Compromise of 1850

Why did southerners support states rights?

• The population of the South believed that each state was its own country.

• Southerners did not want the federal government to abolish slavery because it was not in their interests.

• The southern states wanted to own the rights to all railroad tracks in their state.

• Many Southerners disagreed on the issue of women’s suffrage.

Which regions primary economic activity in the 1860s was the cultivation of cotton?

• A

• B

• C

• D

The declared purpose of the compact of Union from which we have withdrawn was “to establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity;” and when, in the judgement of the sovereign States now composing this Confederacy, it had…ceased to answer the ends for which it was established, a peaceful appeal to the ballot-box declared that so far as they were concerned, the government created by that compact would cease to exist.

-President Jefferson Davis, inaugural address, February 18, 1861

How did President Abraham Lincoln react to the idea expressed in Jefferson Davis’s inaugural address?

• Lincoln stated that the argument by the South to leave the Union was unjustified.

• Lincoln called on the U.S. Supreme Court to make a ruling on the legality of secession.

• Lincoln believed the reasoning to leave the Union was protect by the Constitution.

• Lincoln prepared to amend the Constitution in order to appease the Southern states.

What was one effect of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?

• The Republican Party lost influence in the federal legislature.

• The Missouri Compromise was deemed unconstitutional by federal courts.

• Tensions among the populations of northern and southern states increased.

• Immigrants were forced to relocate from eastern cities to western territories.