A tool that revolutionized agriculture in the South.
Cotton gin
100
Taxes which helped the textile industry in the North but harmed the South’s economy…
Protective Tariffs
100
Admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
Missouri Compromise of 1820
100
Before the Civil War
Antebellum Era
100
Moving from one country to another.
Immigration
200
The Vice President of the US who resigned over the protective Tariffs.
John C. Calhoun
200
Two reasons for population growth in America’s large cities…
Increased immigration, migration from rural to urban areas, job opportunities in industry, etc.
200
Started an uproar by repealing the line of the Missouri Compromise and allowing popular sovereignty.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
200
The act of leaving the Union
Secession
200
Loyalty to one’s region or area
Sectionalism
300
Another name for a small farmer
Yeoman/Subsistence Farmer
300
Two reasons why SC cared about the westward expansion of slavery...
Wearing out soil due to cotton production & fear that if it didn't spread, it would eventually be outlawed
300
The controversial “Fugitive Slave Law,” which allowed slave owners to recover runaway slaves in the North, was part of which event that led to SC’s secession?
The Compromise of 1850
300
Territories vote on whether or not to allow slavery
Popular Sovereignty
300
Belief that slavery should not extend beyond the South…
Free-soilers
400
Name a responsibility on the plantation for each of the following: plantation owner & mistress (spouse)
Management of slave population, marketing of crops
Management of the running of the household, nursing sick slaves to health.
400
Two reasons why the abolitionist movement had little success in SC prior to the Civil War
SC’s denial of the abuses of slavery, censorship, location, economic dependence on slavery, etc.
400
Name three present-day states that were part of the Mexican Cession
Parts of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and California
400
Refusal to obey a federal law.
Nullification
400
Belief that the federal government should not interfere with the laws of a state or interfere with their rights.
States’ Rights
500
The argument that slavery was justified because they cared for slaves throughout their lives, provided them with basic necessities and a job, kept them moral, etc...
Positive Good
500
Supreme Court case where slaves were deemed property and told they were not capable of US citizenship…
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
500
Author of the South Carolina Exposition and Protest and SC leader during the Nullification Crisis…
John C. Calhoun
500
Two political groups that formed in response to SC's nullification of the protective tariffs:
Nullifiers- in support of nullification
Unionists- in support of the federal government
500
What were two unintended outcomes of the Denmark Vesey Plot?
Stronger slave codes & the unity of the white population toward slavery & the silencing of abolitionists