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Contributions to Sectionalism • While Northerners were anti- slavery that did not mean that they were not racist • Many whites in the North refused to go to school, work, or live near African Americans

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Contributions to Sectionalism• While Northerners were anti-slavery

that did not mean that they were not racist

• Many whites in the North refused to go to school, work, or live near African Americans

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Contributions to Sectionalism• Southerners claimed that slavery

helped slaves by introducing them to Christianity

• They also felt that slavery provided slaves with food, clothing, and shelter throughout their lives

• Southerners felt slavery was their way of life and they were willing to defend it

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Slave Legislation

• Missouri Compromise (1820)• Nullification Crisis (1832)• Compromise of 1850 (1850)• Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

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Missouri Compromise (1820)

• Dealt with the issue of slave and non-slave states

• The compromise kept a balance in the senate between slave and non-slave states

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Nullification Crisis (1832)• Vice-President John C. Calhoun said that states

should have the right to nullify, or reject, laws they feel are unconstitutional

• This would allow Southern states to nullify the tariffs.

• President Andrew Jackson did not consider nullification a right of state governments

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Andrew Jackson---------------------------

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Henry David Thoreau• In Thoreau’s “On the Duty of Civil

Disobedience” he said that citizens should refuse to pay a government tax.

• Thoreau felt that he should not pay since the government continued to permit injustice by fighting wars and permitting slavery

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Henry David Thoreau• Thoreau’s idea of civil disobedience influenced

American society• Civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr.

called on people to refuse to obey laws they considered unjust

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The Compromise of 1850• The Compromise allowed California to

become a state• Henry Clay (Missouri Compromise 1820)

helped create a plan to settle the issue

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