Defining a New Nation
To absorb or integrate into a wider society or culture, often used to describe the U.S. policy toward Native Americans during westward expansion.
What is assimilation?
Often called the "Second War of Independence," this conflict with Britain was supported by "War Hawks" like South Carolina's John C. Calhoun.
What is the War of 1812?
Loyalty to the interests of one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole.
What is sectionalism?
This political movement championed the "common man" and expanded voting rights to most white males.
What is Jacksonian Democracy?
To formally give up or surrender control, land, or power to another person or country.
What is cede?
This 1803 land deal doubled the size of the U.S. and was initially opposed by some South Carolinians who feared it would dilute the influence of the original states.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
To make federal tariffs null and void, South Carolina attempted to do so in 1832.
What is nullify?
While the North developed factories, the South maintained this economic system, focusing on large-scale agriculture and enslaved labor.
What is Plantations over Industry?
The 1828 tax on imports that South Carolinians labeled the "Tariff of Abominations".
What is a protective tariff?
A person who has escaped from a place or is hiding, especially to avoid arrest or persecution.
What is fugitive?
This term refers to the basic physical and organizational structures (like roads, bridges, and canals) needed for the operation of a society.
What is infrastructure?
This period of national unity and a one-party political system followed the War of 1812.
What is the Era of Good Feelings?
This 1820 agreement allowed Maine to enter as a free state and Missouri as a slave state to maintain the balance of power in the Senate.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The South Carolina leader who anonymously wrote the South Carolina Exposition and Protest against the tariff.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
Information, often of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a particular political cause or point of view.
What is propaganda?
A sense of pride and devotion to one’s country that surged after the War of 1812.
What is nationalism?
To withdraw formally from membership in a federal union or an alliance.
What is secede?
To focus on a particular area of work or production; the North did this with manufacturing while the South did this with cotton.
What is specialize?
The 1833 legislation that gave President Jackson the power to use the military to collect tariffs in South Carolina.
What is the Force Bill?
To openly resist or refuse to obey a law, authority, or person in power.
What is defy?
He was a South Carolina delegate to the Constitutional Convention and a prominent Federalist leader in the early republic.
Who is Charles Pinckney?
Henry Clay's three-part economic plan that included a high tariff, a national bank, and internal improvements.
What is The American System?
The principle that the authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people, often used to decide the issue of slavery in new territories.
What is popular sovereignty?
This 1822 event in Charleston led to stricter slave codes and increased sectional tension in South Carolina.
What was the Denmark Vesey plot (or slave conspiracy)?
A young person who possesses exceptional qualities or abilities that far exceed their age.
What is prodigy?