The idea that a state's interests should take precedence over the interest of the national government.

• Nullification
• State's rights
• Secession
• Sectionalism

Laws enacted in the south that took away slaves' rights.

• Sectionalism
• Nullification
• State's Rights
• Slave Codes

The period before the Civil War is known as

• Antechamber
• Anteroom
• Anteumbrella
• Antebellum

The belief that people of a state can vote down a federal law is known as

• Simplification
• Rectificaton
• Nullification
• Education

Why are there so few first person accounts of antebellum life written by slaves?

• It was illegal for slaves to read and write
• Books about slavery were not popular
• Slaves didn't want to write about such an awful topic
• Only abolitionists wrote about slavery

The 1857 Supreme Court decision regarding this man ruled that slaves aren't citizens.

• Judge Dredd
• Scott Dred
• Judge Judy
• Dred Scott

What did the "Georgia Platform" support?

• State's rights
• Compromise of 1850
• Missouri Compromise
• Popular Sovereignty

This was a concept that the country would spread from coast to coast

• Manifest Destiny
• Psychological Manifestation
• Destiny Personified
• My Way or the Highway

A balance of power was maintained in the Senate through this Compromise with Maine entering as a free state

• Missouri Compromise of 1820
• The Compromise of 1850
• The Compromise To End All Compromises
• The Nebraska Compromise

These were people who were opposed to slavery

• Absolutists
• Abolitionists
• Antagonists
• Antibiotics