Chapter 13: The Sectional Crisis

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

________ 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.

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

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

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

The ________ marked an early origin of the sectional crisis.

_____________________ were the three revolutions that started splintering the old order

What was the international impact of the Haitian Revolution?

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

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

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

What was the implication of the Dred Scott decision?

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

_____________________ 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

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