Growth leads to Division: The Road to the Civil War US/VA History Unit 5: Growth, Reform and Division Vocab: Antebellum Missouri Compromise Drew an east-west line through the Louisiana Purchase Slavery allowed below the line Slavery prohibited above the line, except in Missouri Tariffs and Nullification The central argument of South Carolinas Exposition was that a sovereign state could nullify any federal law that it disagreed with. If the federal government did not recognize this right, Calhoun wrote, that state was within its rights to secede from the Union. Sectionalism Nullification John C. Calhoun (SC) The US in 1849what next? Compromise of 1850 Fugitive Slave Law (1850) Vocab: Fugitive The Fugitive (runaway) Slave Law required people in the North (free states) to capture slaves who had escaped and return them to their owners in the South. It was a crime to help an escaped slave. Uncle Toms Cabin So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war. -- A. Lincoln A book by Harriet Beecher Stowe (an abolitionist) that described the life of a slave (Uncle Tom). It helped people in the North understand how horrible slavery was. The US in 1853what next? Kansas-Nebraska Act Vocab: Popular Sovereignty Repealed the Missouri Compromise line Gave Kansas and Nebraska the right of popular sovereignty Led to Bleeding Kansas Bleeding Kansas Bloody fighting in Kansas as pro- and anti- slavery forces battled each other. Each side wanted to get the most supporters into Kansas, so they could win the vote on slavery. They fought one another in brutal battles. Birth of the Republican Party Created to oppose the spread of slavery. Made up of northern Democrats, anti-slavery Whigs, and Free-Soil Party members. They did not agree on many things, but they were all against the spread of slavery. (Even if it was for different reasons.) Dred Scott Decision John Browns Raid on Harpers Ferry Election of 1860 South Carolina Secedes 1860 Vocab: - Secession - To Secede