Civil War quiz 1 Flashcards
to cancel
nullify
The belief that a state has the authority to override a federal law if it hurts their state.
States’ Rights
The decision that allowed California to join as a free state and outlawed the slave trade in Washington D.C. was the
Compromise of 1850
This region’s labor source was mainly immigrants willing to work for low pay.
North
This region’s economy focused on factories and industry.
North
This region supported a high tariff
North
this region believed in states rights
South
This region’s economy focused on agriculture
South
to get rid of
abolish
This region which wanted the government to raise taxes to pay for roads and railroads
North
This region traded and imported most goods with Great Britian.
South
The change from handmade goods to machine made goods is called the
Industrial Revolution
When people felt more loyalty to the area they lived in than the whole United States
sectionalism
to leave the union/nation
secede
The major focus of the northern economy was…
manufacturing, industry, factories
a tax on imports
tariff
An abolitionist was a person who
wanted to end all enslavement
Agreement that focused on keeping the number of slave and free states the same.
Compromise of 1820/ Missouri Compromise
an area of a country that has similar characteristics
region
This region used mainly enslaved laborers.
South
First state to threaten to secede
South Carolina
This clearly stated that enslaved people were property and did not have the rights of citizens
Dredd Scott Supreme Court Case
The United Nations states that people have these simply because they were born.
human rights
Law which required all people to help recapture run away enslaved people
Fugitive Slave Act
Sectional rivalries during the period from 1820 to 1860 centered around issues like
Tariff, Slavery, Internal improvements (building roads) States’ rights
