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Missouri Compromise
Missouri Compromise had a rising sectionalism. This compromise kept the number of free and slave states equal. It also created line (36 30') to designate future free and slave states. -
California Gold Rush
California Gold Rush had an rising sectionalism because gold was discovered in 1848, people poured into California to prospect the "golden mountains." -
Mexican War
Mexican War had a rising sectionalism. The war brought in new land that both the North and South wanted to influence. The United States owned land from the Atlantic ocean to the pacific. -
Wilmot Proviso
Wilmot Proviso had a rising sectionalism. To appease the north,this bill proposed making all land won from mexico free. Southern Congressmen angrily blocked the bill from becoming law. -
Compromise of 1850
Compromise of 1850 had a lowering sectionalism. This determined the status of the land from the Mexican Cession, including California. -
Fugitive Slave Law
Fugitive Slave Law had a more rising sectionalism. This law became the most controversial part of the Compromise of 1850 it forced northerners to the South as slaves. -
Uncle Tom’s Cabin is published
Uncle Tom’s Cabin is published had a rising sectionalism. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, a book about slavery. The book was graphic and made slavery look terrible. -
Republican Party Forms
Republican Party Forms had a rising sectionalism. Anti-slavery Whigs, Democrats, and the Free-Soil party hated the Kansas-Nebraska Act. They joined together to form the Republican party, which existed in the NORTH. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act had a rising sectionalism. The law was meant to organize new northern states in the mid-west for a northern railroad. The South worried because this was above the 36 30' line -
“Bleeding Kansas”
“Bleeding Kansas” had an rising sectionalism. Abolitionists from the North and slave owners ("border ruffians") from the South poured into Kansas. Popular sovereignty failed because people in Kansas could not agree over slavery. -
Charles Sumner caned in the Senate
Charles Sumner caned in the Senate had a rising sectionalism. Preston Brooks, a congressman from South Carolina, nearly beating Sumner to death with a cane. The North was outraged and the South was happy. Violence in Kansas and in Congress foreshadowed the civil war. -
Dred Scott vs. Sandford
Dred Scott vs. Sandford had a rising sectionalism. The Supreme Court made a ruling about slavery in the west.North-Republicans and abolitionists were angry that slavery could legally spread west. -
John Brown’s Raid at Harper’s Ferry
John Brown’s Raid at Harper’s Ferry had a rising sectionalism. It had that effect because John Brown and his followers seized a federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia Brown intended to smuggle military to the south and start a major slave rebellion Brown was stopped, captured, and executed. -
Battle at Fort Sumter
Battle at Fort Sumter had a rising sectionalism. When the Union tried to resupply the fort and the South fired on the fort, the war was inevitable. -
Abraham Lincoln elected President
Abraham Lincoln elected President had a rising sectionalism. By Lincoln's inauguration, the Confederacy claimed federal in the south. Lincoln decided to resupply Fort Sumter located on an island off the coast of South Carolina. -
Southern states begin to secede
Southern states begin to secede had a lower sectionalism. South Carolina seceded from the United States first in late 1860. By the time Lincoln was sworn into office.
