Antebellum America

The term for differences that arose between different regions of the country (North vs. South)

• Reform

• Sectionalism

• Textiles

• Suffrage

The belief that slavery should be made illegal (abolish)

• Sectionalism

• Reform

• Abolition

• Suffrage

Attempting to make something better (prisons, schools, etc)

• Textiles

• Reform

• Suffrage

• Manifest Destiny

The right to vote

• Suffrage

• Popular Sovereignty

• Missouri Compromise

• Annex

The act of formally withdrawing from the union

• Textiles

• Missouri Compromise

• Popular sovereignty

• Secession

The right of a state's citizens to decide the issue of slavery in their state

• Secession

• Popular Sovereignty

• Abolition

• Suffrage