A | B |
Nationalism | Pride, Loyalty, and Protectiveness to your country |
Sectionalism | a loyalty to your own region of the country |
Patriotism | Love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it |
Economic Growth | Nationalism tends to strengthen |
Cotton and Slavery | Southern Economy |
Manufacturing and Trade | Northern Economy |
Missouri Compromise | Made Maine a free state and Missourri a slave state |
Henry Clay | Created the Missouri Compromise |
Wilmot Proviso | a proposal to prohibit slavery in the territories |
House of Representatives | The North controlled the voting power based on population |
Compromise of Eighteen Fifty | Issue over California becoming a free state |
Fugitive Slave Act | required Northerners to turn runaway slaves in |
Bleeding Kansas | name given to the territory of Kansas |
Uncle Toms Cabin | a book that heightened the conflict between the North and South |
Popular Sovereignty | rule by the people, people vote on issues |
Kansas- Nebraska Act | turned Kansas into a battleground over slavery |
Charles Sumner | Northern Senator who was beaten |
California | admitted as the 31st state |
Dred Scott | slave who sued for his freedom |
United States Supreme Court | ruled African Americans were not citizens |
Roger Taney | Chief Justice of Supreme Court |
Unconstitutional | Missouri Compromise was ruled to be |
Abraham Lincoln | 16th President of the United States |
Ppular Vote | Lincoln only recieved 40% |
Secession | What Southern States threatened had Lincoln become President |
South Carolina | The first state to secede or leave the Union |
Fort Sumter | Where the first shots of the Civil War were fired |
Confederates | what the rebels were called |
Confederate States of America | what the rebels named their new nation |
Protectiveness | joining the military is an example of |