The Road to the civil war. Sectionalism loyalty to and personal identification with a section of the U.S. (like the South), instead of to the whole nation;

The Road to the civil war

Sectionalism

loyalty to and personal identification with a section of the U.S. (like the South), instead of to the whole nation; differences among regions affected the actions, reactions, and viewpoints of its people...what’s the opposite?

Daniel Webster (North)

John C. Calhoun (South)

Henry Clay (West)

anti-slavery pro-slavery

pro-economic growth and

infrastructure (new roads/railroads)

pro-tariff (Tariff of Abominations,

anyone?)anti-tariff pro-tariff

federal authority states’ rightsfederal authority,

U.S. self-sufficient

Kansas-Nebraska Act1854

voters within territories would determine whether slave or free (what’s this process known as?)

violated the Missouri Compromise ...angered north

1000’s of non-residents (some New England abolitionists and many pro-slavery Missourians) voted in Kansas

violence erupted...BLEEDING KANSAS!

two territory governments were formed

slaves were not citizens

slaves were property

slaves could not file law suits

Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional

Dred Scott v. Sanford

STATES’ RIGHTS...southern states believed:

1.states had the right to nullify illegal federal laws (like tariffs)

2.states could secede

SLAVERY

southern states believed the North would abolish slavery

this resulted in fights over whether new states would be free or slave

SECTIONALISM!

SECTIONALISM!

SECTIONALISM!

issue of slavery split the Democratic party between the North and South

Republican Abraham Lincoln (northerner) won

Southern states seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of ‘Merica

The Election Of Lincoln