Compromise of 1850 - North and South agreed California would join as a free states. New territories will vote on issue of slavery., Fugitive slave Act - Runaways must be captured and returned back to owners. Can be fined or imprisoned for not obeying., Kansas Nebraska Act - Agreement that attempted to solve slavery issue. Violence will erupted as a result. (also known as Bleeding Kansas), Dred Scott v Sanford - Ruled Slaves were property NOT citizens. Congress did not have power to end slavery., Emancipation Proclamation - Formal declaration by Lincoln declaring slaves were free in the Confederate states., Siege of Vicksburg - Union captured the Mississippi river, which divided the Confederacy in half., Appomattox Court House - Robert E Lee surrendered to Ulysses S Grant ending the Civil War, located in Virginia., Sectionalism - loyalty to one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole. Contributed to Civil War., North's Economy & Characteristics - factories, manufacturing, immigrants, cities, South's Economy & Characteristics - plantations, cash crops (cotton, tobacco) slaves, rural, West's Economy & Characteristics - Gold, mining, ranching, Chineses immigrants, Transcontinental Railroad. ,

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