Unit 5 - SS8H6a - Civil War/Reconstruction

Republican candidate and victor in the election of 1860

Admitted Missouri and Maine to the established 36' 30"

Established a strict fugitive slave law

Most controverisal issue dividing northerners & southerners during the 1800's was?

An extremist group arguing for the immediate end to slavery

"Final Straw" for the South leading to the immediate secession of several southern states

The " Great Compromiser"; author of the Missouri Compromise

What was the meaning of Antebellum?

A tax on imported goods

Supreme Court decision ruling that since slaves were not citizens, they could not sue in court

The idea that a state can declare a federal law invalid within its border

Permitted certain states to determine by "popular sovereignty" whether they would be free slave

Belief that the interests of the region/section are more important than interests of nation .