Sectionalism
The loyalty people felt toward their geographical region, instead of loyalty to the nation as a whole
Abolitionists
Reformers who saw slavery as a great moral evil that ought to be abolished
Fredrick Douglass
A former slave who gave speeches and wrote books about the horrors they had endured in the south
Missouri Compromise
When Missouri applied for admission as a slave state
Freeport Doctrine
A popular sovereignty where Stephen Douglas insisted that the residents of a territory could still ban slavery through local laws
Compromise of 1850
A crisis that occurred thirty years later when California threatened to upset the balance in the Senate by applying for admission as a free state
Fugitive Slave Act
A new law where anyone who helps runaway slaves would be captured a tried for breaking the law
Kansas-Nebraska Act
A 1854 bill that mandated “popular sovereignty” rule in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska
Ostend Manifesto
A report when US diplomats in Europe from the South schemed to annex Cuba as a new slave state
Republican Party
Formed in 1854 in direct response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, they opposed the extension of slavery to any new territories
