States' Rights and Nullification

The idea of "nullification," as proposed by John C. Calhoun, was basically about

• voting reforms.

• the national bank.

• states' rights.

• the spoils system.

How did the Nullification Crisis and its resolution foreshadow the Civil War?

• South Carolina challenged federal authority over the states by declaring a federal tariff void, but the president and Congress maintained that federal authority was supreme.

• South Carolina defied an international trade agreement negotiated by the president, so the president used the military to force the state government to abide by the agreement.

• After South Carolina prohibited citizens from capturing or transporting escaped slaves, the president ordered the military to seek out and capture escaped slaves living in the state.

• After South Carolina illegally signed a treaty with Spain without Senate approval, the federal government declared martial law in the state until a new state government was elected.

What political concept, popularized by John C. Calhoun in the 1830s, did opponents of the Compromise of 1850 embrace to show their displeasure with the agreement?

• manifest destiny

• interventionism

• brinkmanship

• nullification

The ________ resulted from President Andrew Jackson's attempt to balance trade between the North and the South through a tariff on imported goods.

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• spoils system

• nullification controversy

The North was becoming an economy based on

• agriculture or farming.

• industry or manufacturing.

• music.

• technology.

The South was becoming an economy based on

• agriculture or farming.

• industry or manufacturing.

• music.

• technology.

States’ rights can BEST be defined as the belief that states

• could leave the Union at any time if they chose to.

• could maintain slavery if their population wished to.

• could ignore national laws if they were harmful to the state.

• could force the national government to turn over all national government property to the states.