Causes Day 1

This means to break away from one's country

• antebellum

• sectionalism

• secede/ secession

This states that slavery could not go over the 36th parallel and admitted Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state, maintaining the balance in Congress

• Missouri Compromise of 1820

• The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

• The Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854

• The Great Compromise of 1850

This gave popular sovereignty to the territory gained from the Mexican American War and allowed California to enter as a free state. It also paid off Texas' debts and shut down the slave trade in DC ( though people could still own enslaved people there :(

• Missouri Compromise of 1820

• The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

• The Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854

• The Great Compromise of 1850

This law outraged the North as it allowed runaway enslaved people to be captured in the North and returned to the South, making no state truly "free"

• Missouri Compromise of 1820

• The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

• The Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854

• The Great Compromise of 1850

This decision basically erased the Missouri Compromise, by allowing popular sovereignty to be used above the 36th paralell. Not to mention the fact that thousands from Missouri crossed the state border to vote for slavery to be allowed in this new state!

• Missouri Compromise of 1820

• The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

• The Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854

• The Great Compromise of 1850

This was a reaction to the Kansas Nebraska Act, resulting in a 5 year mini Civil War between pro and anti slavery supporters ( including John Brown )

• Bloody Nebraska

• Barbaric Missouri

• Bleeding Kansas

Putting state's interest over the needs of the whole country

• antebellum

• popular sovereignty

• sectionalism

Allowing states and territories to decide whether or not to allow slavery

• antebellum

• popular sovereignty

• sectionalism

The ____ was more rural, depending on slave labor for their agricultural economy. This region also had less transportation and less people.

The ____ was more urban, with a large population, more transportation and industrial economy that did not include slavery.