Unit 4 Topic 2

loyalty to a particular region fueled by the development of different economies prior to the Civil War

• sectionalism

• popular sovereignty

• secession

• nullification

federal order that stated slavery existed in many states but was prohibited in the new territory

• Nullification Crisis

• Northwest Ordinance of 1787

• Missouri Compromise of 1820

• Compromise of 1850

law that stated the United States would stop bringing in slaves from other countries

• Nullification Crisis

• Compromise of 1850

• Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves of 1807

• Missouri Compromise of 1820

Congressional act used to maintain a balance of power in the US Senate between free and slave states which stated that new states would be admitted in pairs (one free state; one slave state)

• Compromise of 1850

• Act Prohibiting the Importation of Slaves of 1807

• Northwest Ordinance of 1787

• Missouri Compromise of 1820

tax on imported goods

• tariff

• nullification

• sovereignty

• abolition

a federal tax placed on European imports that resulted in threats of secession from South Carolina, which believed the tax unfairly punished southern agricultural states

• Popular Tariff 

• Compromise Tariff of 1850

• Nullification Tariff (1831 - 1833)

• Tariff of Abominations (1828)

theory used to justify secession based upon the idea that states joined together to create the federal government and therefore could determine if it acted unconstitutionally

• nullification rights

• secession rights

• states' rights

• compromise rights

political problem in which southern states refused to pay a federally-imposed tariff, claiming states' rights allowed them to void federal laws that violated their rights

• Tariff of Abominations Crisis

• Compromise of 1850 Crisis

• Bleeding Kansas

• Nullification Crisis 1832

Andrew Jackson's first vice president who opposed Jackson by favoring nullification and secession

• Henry Clay

• John C. Calhoun

• Abraham Lincoln

• John Quincy Adams

  
  

former US Senator, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Secretary of State who developed the American System and authored the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850; also worked on a compromise for the Nullification Crisis

• John C. Calhoun

• Andrew Jackson

• Henry Clay

• Dred Scott