Sectionalism

“Missouri Compromise Allows Two New States Into the Union”

“Congress Agrees to Compromise of 1850”

“Popular Sovereignty Adopted Under Kansas- Nebraska Act”

Which issue is reflected in these headlines?

… The whole military force of the State is at the service of a Mr. Suttle, a slaveholder from Virginia, to enable him to catch a man whom he calls his property; Is this what all these soldiers, all this training, have been for these seventy-nine years past [since the beginning of the American Revolution]? Have they been trained merely to rob Mexico and carry back fugitive slaves to their masters?…

— Henry David Thoreau, Independence Day speech at Framingham, Massachusetts

The author of this statement is expressing dissatisfaction with a provision included in the

Speaker A: The right way to settle the question of slavery in the territories is to let the people who live there determine if their state is to be slave or free.

The solution proposed by Speaker A is known as

This poster from the 1850s appeared in response to the