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Bell Work 18 Quiz
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Sectionalism
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The Issue Slavery is Trying to Expand: Non Slave states are trying to stop it from expanding too much. If slave states outnumbered non slave states they would have more representation in congress…
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Events leading to the Civil War
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Missouri Compromise
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Texas
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Mexican American War
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Cuba
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Five part law that tried to settle conflict after the War…
Compromise of 1850 Five part law that tried to settle conflict after the War… Texas surrenders New Mexico Territory California was a became a free state Popular sovereignty, or people in the states, get to choose if the state is a slave state. The Fugitive Slave Act was strengthened. The slave trade was banned in Washington DC No one was happy with it…
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The Kansas Nebraska Act
The US wanted a transcontinental railroad. The South and North were fighting over which region gets it. They decided to put it right in the middle, and split the territory into two separate territories. One would probably vote to be free soil and the other would probably vote to be a slave territory.
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Wrap Up How can we see the tension in the US escalating?
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Create an introductory paragraph
Analyze the causes of sectionalism in the US during the antebellum period.
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