Sectionalism and the spread of slavery

When you support the region you live in rather than the entire U.S.

Someone who works to end slavery.

Series of routes and safe houses to help slaves escape to the north or to Canada

Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed the evils of slavery and convinced many people that slavery had to end.

The idea government gets its power from the people. Territories that voted to become a slave or free state used this principle

An agreement proposed by Henry Clay that allowed one state to enter the Union as a slave state and another to enter as a free state and outlawed slavery in any territories or states north of 36°30´ latitude.

Taxes placed on imported goods. The purpose is to protect domestic producers.

Required that northern states forcibly return escaped slaves to their owners

To leave or withdraw

A conductor on the Underground Railroad

An agreement in which both sides give up some demands

A state's refusal to recognize an act of Congress that it considers unconstitutional

Leading cash crop in the South in the 1800's.

The right of each state to make certain decisions without interference from the federal government.

A state witch does not allow slavery