Chapter 9.3 Vocabulary

Tariff of Abominations

• taxed both agricultural goods that were imported from other countries

• taxed both manufactured goods and raw materials that were imported from other countries

• taxed both the north and south

• taxed both manufactured goods and raw materials that were imported from the North

The theory was as follows: If the federal government took an action that went beyond its constitutional powers, a state could say the law was null and void, or invalid.

• Nullification

• Taxation without Representation

• Union

• Popular Sovereignty

__________is the term used to describe the Northern and Western states that fought against the Confederacy, or Southern states, during the U.S. Civil War.

• Confederacy

• Union

• Free State

• Republican Party

_________is the belief that the political power of a nation or state comes from the consent of the people.

• Nullification

• Union

• Popular Sovereignty

• Slave State

The 6th President of the United States

• George Washington

• Abraham Lincoln

• Henry Clay

• John Quincy Adams

________was any one of the 15 states in which slavery was legal prior to the Emancipation Proclamation.

• Free State

• Slave State

_________to refer to U.S. states that did not allow slavery.

• Free State

• Slave State

___________is one of the two major political parties in the United States. It was created in the 1850s as an antislavery party.

• Democrat Party

• Republican Party