Sectionalism

By ashleyyyy4

  • The Invention of the Cotton Gin

    The cotton gin was invented by Eli Whitney, it was a machine that made the process of separating the seeds from the cotton faster. The number of slaves began to increase on each plantation because the faster the cotton gin worked the more cotton the master's needed picked.

  • The Embargo Act of 1807

    This act was passed by Congress and president Thomas Jefferson that basically stated to stop of all trade between America and other countries. The plan to get France and Britain, who were fighting each other, to stop restricting American trade; that didn't go so well so the act ended in 1809 and caused a lot of Americans to suffer.

  • The Missouri Compromise

    The Missouri Compromise maintained a balance of power between the slaveholding states and free states. It was a split between North and South Missouri; North Missouri want to end slavery and South Missouri favored slavery as a right.

  • The Tariff of Abominations

    This act was an attempt to protect local producers from foreign competitions by putting tariff on imported goods to reduce importation. It basically justified the conflict created by the Tariff of 1828.

  • The Mexican-American War

    It divided and militarily unprepared Mexico against the expansionist-minded administration of U.S. President James K. Polk, who believed the United States had a “manifest destiny” to spread across the continent to the Pacific Ocean.

  • Wilmot Proviso

    Wilmot and some northerners were angry at President Polk. They felt that the entire Cabinet and national agenda were dominated by southern minds and southern principles. Wilmot introduced legislation in the House that boldly declared, "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist" in lands won in the Mexican-American War.

  • The Compromise of 1850

    Texas would relinquish the land in dispute but, in compensation, be given 10 million dollars -- money it would use to pay off its debt to Mexico. Also, the territories of New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah would be organized without mention of slavery. Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was the most controversial. It required citizens to assist in the recovery of fugitive slaves.

  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin

    A novel that the north, readers became acutely aware of the horrors of slavery on a far more personal level than ever before. In the south the book was met with outrage and branded an irresponsible book of distortions and overstatements.

  • The Kansas-Nebraska Act

    It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Kansas-Nebraska Act infuriated many in the North who considered the Missouri Compromise to be a long-standing binding agreement. In the pro-slavery South it was strongly supported.

  • Bleeding Kansas

    With the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska act, thousands of pro- and anti-slavery supporters flooded the state.Violence occurred on the floor of the U.S. Senate when Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina attacked Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with a cane after Sumner spoke out against Southerners responsible for violence in Kansas.

  • The Dred Scott Case

    Dred Scott v. Sanford. Dred Scott, a slave who had lived in the free state of Illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin before moving back to the slave state of Missouri, had appealed to the Supreme Court in hopes of being granted his freedom.

  • “House Divided” Speech

    This speech was at the Illinois Republican convention where basically Lincoln stated that a union will not be a union if half are slave free and half are for slavery.

  • John Brown’s Raid

    John and a group of his followers traveled to Harper's Ferry; capturing citizens and seizing armory. John hoped that local slaves would join his group to gather weapons and free the slave. This event did not last long, Marines roared in killing many.

  • The Election of 1860

    Lincoln became the leader of the Republicans in Illinois, the central issue of the presidential election of 1860 was bound to be slavery. Battles over the spread of slavery to new territories and states had gripped the United States.

  • South Carolina secedes from Union

    An event of a vote of 169-0, the South Carolina legislature enacted the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of "The United States of America:" separating from the North.