The Compromise of 1850 was where five separate bills passed by the United States Congress defused a political confrontation between slave and free states.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was the act that passed Kansas and Nebraska as U.S. territories.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
A Secessionist is someone who favors the withdrawal from a a federation, a Unionists is someone part of a labor union, and a Cooperationist is someone who believed that remaining slave states should succeed from the rest of the nation.
What is the difference between Secessionists, Unionists, and Cooperationists?