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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