Popular Sovereignty
Let the people of the territories themselves decide whether slavery would be permitted.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
It required that all escaped slaves, upon capture, be returned to their masters and that officials and citizens of free states had to cooperate.
Novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed the horrors of slavery.
loyalty to one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole
Sectionalism
Compromise of 1850
It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
California entered as a free state
Fugitive Slave Law
