1. Political Sectionalism
Leading to a Civil War
Events leading to the Secession of the South
Political Sectionalism

2. Political Sectionalism
Constitutional Compromises of 1788
Slaves to count as 3/5 of a free person
Slave trade to end in twenty years

3. Political Sectionalism
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Missouri - slave state
Maine - free state
New states into the Union have to be balanced:
one free/one slave

4. The Missouri Compromise

5. Political Sectionalism
Compromise of 1850
California a free state
Slavery not made illegal in Utah and
New Mexico Territories.

6. Slave and Free Territories Under the Compromise of 1850

7. Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
It gave people living there the choice to voting for or against slavery in the state.
Hundreds moved in to “vote.”
Tempers FLARED, and over 200 people were killed in the dispute.
Nicknamed “ Bleeding Kansas”

8. The Kansas Nebraska Act

9. What does the previous map tell you about the political balance and the issue of slavery?
What potential problems did the Utah and New Mexico Territories represent?
How could those problems be resolved politically?

10. The Kansas Nebraska Act

11. Do you think the slave states voted as a bloc?
Why? Or why not?

12. The Election of 1860

13. The Confederate States of America