Sectionalism Vocab

Crops that are sold for profit to make money

• profit crops
• money crops
• cash crops

When two sides disagree, but give up a little to come to an agreement

• Conflict
• Stalemate
• Compromise

Large farms with a high demand for labor (workers)

• Plantations

• Estates

• Ranch

Power given to the people to vote

• Citizenship
• Republicanism

• Popular Sovereignty

Power given to the A tariff whose purpose is to protect and encourage the sale of American made goods by making foreign made goods more expensive to vote

• Import tariff
• Export tariff
• Protective tariff

To withdraw or leave from a group

• secession

• sectionalism

• sensationalism

Love and devotion to your section of the country: North, West, South

• sectionalism

• succession

• successive

Power given to the states

• Shared powers
• States' Rights

• Federal Rights

Authored by Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois, this allowed the residents west of Missouri to decide to have slavery or not in their territories.

• Compromise of 1850
• Fugitive Slave Act 1850

• Missouri Compromise 1820

• Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854

This political party formed by former members of the Whig Party in 1854. They were not abolitionists, just simply did not want slavery to expand to the western territories.

• Republican Party
• Federalist Party
• Libertarian Party
• Democratic Party