The Road to the Civil War

How do Nationalism and Sectionalism differ?

• Nationalism: feelings of pride and loyalty to a nation.

• Sectionalism: Devotion to the interests of one geographic region over the interests of the country as a whole.

Expanding America

• Convention of 1818-Set border between United States and Canada at 49'N latitude and West to the Rocky Mountains.

• Adams-Onis Treaty 1819- Gave Florida to the United States in return for Texas.

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848

• Ended the Mexican/American War and forced Mexico to turn over: California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, and Texas.

Missouri Compromise

Missouri would enter the Union as a slave state.

Maine would join the Union as a free state, keeping the number of slave and free states equal.

• Slavery would be prohibited in any new territories or states formed north of 36'30'latitude - Missouri's southern border.

Compromise of 1850

• California would enter the Union as a free state

• The rest of the Mexican Cession would use popular sovereignty to decide on slavery.

• The government would pay Texas's debts from when it was an independent republic

• The slave trade - but not slavery - would end in the nation's capitol.

• A more effective fugitive slave law would be passed.

Kansas-Nebraska Act

• A plan that would divide the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase into two territories

• Kansas and Nebraska - and allow the people in each territory to decide on the question of slavery.

• Also override the Missouri Compromise's restriction on slavery