States Rights
What is states rights?
The belief that the United States was destined to expand across North America
What is Manifest Destiny?
Strong pride or loyalty to one's country
What is nationalism?
The North's economy was mainly based on this type of work
What is manufacturing/industry?
This 1820 agreement kept the balance between free and slave states by admitting Maine and Missouri.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Southerners most often use states rights to defend this institution
What is slavery?
This war resulted in the U.S. gaining large amounts of land from Mexico
What is the Mexican-American war?
This Supreme Court power allows the Court to declare laws unconstitutional
What is judicial review?
The South's economy relied heavily on this form of labor
What is slave labor?
Compromises attempted to delay conflict but ultimately failed to prevent this event.
What is the Civil War?
This crisis occurred when a Southern state claimed it could ignore a federal tariff
What is the nullification crisis?
This 1848 event caused a massive population boom in California
What is the California Gold Rush?
This Chief Justice strengthened the power of the federal government and the Supreme Court
Who is John Marshall?
This crop was the backbone of the Southern economy
What is cotton?
This compromise admitted California as a free state and strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This Southern leader argued states could nullify federal laws they believed were unconstitutional
John C. Calhoun
This person was the President of the United States during the Mexican-American war.
Who is James K. Polk?
This economic plan promoted tariffs, a national bank, and internal improvements
What is the American System?
The North favored these because they protected factories from foreign competition.
What are tariffs?
This law required Northerners to return escaped enslaved people to their owners.
What is the fugitive slave act?
This idea allowed settlers in a territory to vote on slavery rather than Congress deciding
What is popular sovereignty?
This proposal sought to ban slavery in all land acquired from Mexico, but failed in the Senate
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
This 1823 doctrine warned European nations not to interfere in the Western Hemisphere
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This economic difference caused the South to fear losing political power in Congress.
What is imbalance between free and slave states?
This act repealed the Missouri compromise and led to violence in Kansas
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?