Chapter 13: The Sectional Crisis

Fugitive Slave Act

The ________ created the foundation for a massive expansion of federal power, including an alarming increase in the nations policing powers.

Abraham Lincoln

________ won the 1860 contest on November 6, gaining just 40 percent of the popular vote and not a single southern vote in the Electoral College.

Louisiana Purchase

The ________ of 1803 more than doubled the size of the United States.

American Revolution

Prior to the ________, nearly everyone in the world accepted slavery as a natural part of life.

Missouri Compromise

The ________ marked a major turning point in Americas sectional crisis because it exposed to the public just how divisive the slavery issue had grown.

Haitian Revolution

The ________ marked an early origin of the sectional crisis.

The American, French and Haitian Revolutions

_____________________ were the three revolutions that started splintering the old order

It splintered the Atlantic basin into clear zones of freedom and unfreedom, while also shattering the long-standing assumption that African-descended enslaved people could not also be rulers

What was the international impact of the Haitian Revolution?

Questions immediately arose as to whether these lands would allow slavery

What was the sectional conflict that came with the Louisiana Purchase?

The Free Soil Party

______________________ was a short-lived political party that solely focused on opposing the expansion of slavery into the western territories of the US

The Dred Scott decision

_________________ was a Supreme Court case, Scott v. Sandford, that ruled that Black Americans could not be citizens of the United States

This gave the Buchanan administration and its southern allies a direct repudiation of the Missouri Compromise

What was the implication of the Dred Scott decision?

Abraham Lincoln's election as president in 1860

What was the last straw before states began seceding from the Union?

The Missouri Compromise

_____________________ was legislation that compromised northern attempts to completely prohibit slavery's expansion by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state in exchange for legislation that prohibited slavery in those remaining Louisiana Purchase lands north of an imaginary line

Thomas Jefferson

Many Americans, including _________________________, believed that slavery was a temporary institution and would soon die out