nationalism and sectionalism

Sig of Compromise of 1850

A compromise that both the South and the North could agree on.

Sig of Popular sovereignty

Appealed to the North and the South (they both liked it), limits the power of the government, and settles the unbalance.

Sojourner Truth Definition

Escaped slave, could not write or read but gave dam good speeches on the slavery. She talked about both abolition and women's rights. Fought for both women and blacks.

Stephen Douglass definition

Great Politician. The plan was to split up parts of the Compromise and reintroduce them one at a time so that he would be able to get a majority vote from each one of them. This idea made it so an individual congressman could vote for the provisions that the person liked and didn't like.

Sig of Stephen Douglass

He came up with a working plan to pass the Compromise. Tried to maintain a balance within congress.

William Lloyd Garrison definition

He is a white editor, active in religious reform movements in Massachusetts. Started his own paper "the liberator" in 1831. The paper was to deliver the message: immediate emancipation with no payment to slaveholders.

Sig of William Lloyd Garrison

He is significant because he basically created the abolitionist movement and made an impact on society.

Sig of Frederick Douglass

He is significant because he gave hope for the black community because he spoke out when others didn't. He became a head leader of abolitionist movement, and vouched to end slavery

Frederick Douglass definition

He was an abolitionist. He was born into slavery and learned to read and write but stopped and tried escaping the plantation with challenges, while he helped others. He worked with black and white people and wrote an autobiography.

Fugitive Slave Law definition

In the compromise of 1850, slaves were required to be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state. the North basically participated in slavery because they were obligated to return their slaves if they escaped and didn't free them; even though they couldn't do anything about it.

Sig of Fugitive Slave Law

Leads to sectionalism because the North opposed it b/c slavery spreading

(Not a Term) Sectionalism Def

Sectionalism is loyalty to ones region. It divides because of the identification to ones region, rather than with the nation as a whole (for example: North and East, South and East, and West).

Popular sovereignty definition

Territories become new states get to decide whether they are slave or free states.

Abolition definition

The call to outlaw slavery. African Americans increasingly were joined by whites in public criticism of slavery. Fueled by preachers such as Charles G. Finney.

Compromise of 1850 Definition

The compromise of 1850 was a series of resolutions that made California a free state, allowed New Mexico and Utah popular sovereignty, abolition of slave trade, and proposed a new and more effective fugitive slave law.

Missouri Compromise definition

The missouri compromise was supposed to balance the number of free states and slave states. For example Maine as a free and Missouri as a slave state. There was a border where North was free and South was slave.

(Not a Term) Sig of Sectionalism

The significance is because of the different economies slavery increased sectionalsim.

Sig of Missouri Compromise

The significance is that there's a fine balance between free and slave states that made the senate equally divided. This is a cause to sectionalism because the north is free and the south is slave.

Sig of Sojourner Truth

inspired women to have equal rights.

Sig of Abolition

to make slavery go bye bye and also lead into a national movement we still have today