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Sectionalism Flashcards

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What is sectionalism?

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caring about your region over the country as a whole

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What is a compromise?

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A settlement of a disagreement in which each side gives up something, or the result of such a settlement.

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What is a fugitive?

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A person who has fled from custody (criminal)

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What is the Fugitive Slave Act?

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If a slave runs away from his plantation and owner in the South, it’s a responsibly for anyone who catches him to return him to his owner.

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What is popular sovereignty?

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Power of the people to vote (specifically on whether they wanted slavery in their territory or not at this time)

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What is an abolitionist?

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A person who advocates or supports the end of slavery

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What does oppose mean?

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To go or be against something, to not support something

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How did the South feel about protective tariffs being put in place?

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THEY HATED IT!
They relied on European markets to buy their raw goods (cotton) to make their manufactured goods. When the protective tariff was put in place, Europe stopped buying a lot of the South’s cotton, because the US wasn’t buying a lot of Europe’s finished goods.

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What was the Nullification Crisis?

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South Carolina was threatening to secede (leave) the U.S. due to the protective tariffs and it hurting the cotton plantations in their state. They thought, as a state, they didn’t have to enforce the implementation of the tariff.

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How did the North feel about protective tariffs being put in place?

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THEY LOVED IT!

More people had to buy American made products made in the North as the foreign products were more expensive

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How did the North feel about slavery?

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THEY HATED IT!

It was outlawed there and many abolitionist movements began

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How did the South feel about slavery?

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THEY LOVED IT!

Slaves are essential to the plantation system and are viewed as property with no rights

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What is the Missouri Compromise of 1820?

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  • Slavery is not allowed above the above 36º 30’ parallel
  • Maine is added as a free state
  • Missouri is added as a slave state
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What is the Compromise of 1850?

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  • California admitted as a free state
  • New Mexico & Utah Territories (citizens use popular sovereignty to determine if territory would be free or slave)
  • Fugitive Slave Law is put in place
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What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?

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  • Divided the Louisiana Purchase into the territories of Kansas and Nebraska
  • Allow citizens of Kansas and Nebraska to use popular sovereignty (voting) to determine if it would be free or slave
  • Led to Bleeding Kansas (a bloody battle between pro-slavery groups & anti-slavery groups)
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Main economic activity of the North

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Industrial/Manufacturing

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Main economic activity of the South

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Agriculture

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Main economic activity of the West

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Mining

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What does abolish mean?

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to stop or get rid of

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What is an abolitionist?

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a person who wants to end slavery

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Who was an important figure in the Underground Railroad?

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Harriet Tubman

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What was the Underground Railroad?

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secret routes and hiding spots for slaves to escape slavery from the South to the North

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How did the West feel about the protective tariffs being put in place?

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THEY LOVED IT!

The extra funds helped build railroads, canals, roads, and other needed items to help the West.

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What is the Nat Turner Rebellion?

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An enslaved man who led a rebellion of enslaved people. His action set off a massacre of up to 200 Black people and a new wave of oppressive (harsh) legislation prohibiting (stopping) the education, movement, and assembly of enslaved people

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What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

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Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book that wanted to show the North the evils of slavery through splitting slave families & brutalities of slavery.

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What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?

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Bill (law) proposed by Stephen Douglas to split the Kansas and Nebraska territory in half and the people would decide to be a slave state or non slave state by popular sovereignty (people in the territory’s voting).

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What is Bleeding Kansas?

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The violent acts that occurred when pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces.

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What is a tariff?

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a tax on an imported good

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What is the purpose of a tariff?

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to get Americans to buy American made goods

30
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Dred Scott v. Sanford did what 2 things?

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1) Declared Missouri Compromise Unconstitutional

2) Declared Slavery Lawful

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What does abolish mean?

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to get rid of

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