The belief that one area of land was better and/or suprerior to another area of land in the united States.
What is Sectionalism?
100
The 19th century belief that the United States would inevitably expand westward toward the Pacific Ocean and into Mexican territory
What is the Manifest Destiny?
100
The president who took office in the election of 1860 and was assinated by Booth.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
Favoring intrests of native-born people over foreign-born people.
What is Nativism?
100
The belief that ones nations were superior to all other countries.
What is Nationalism?
200
A series of congressional measures intended to settle the major disagreements between free states and slave states.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
200
A series of agreements passed by Congress in 1820-21 to maintain the balance of power between free and slave states.
What is the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
200
A pre-Civil War set of measures to unify the nation and strengthen the economy.
What is the American System?
200
The groups of different people in politic that own opposing views.
What are the Political Parties?
200
This happened 1849 when there was an excess of gold in California.
What is the Gold Rush?
300
The guy who opposed the Compromise of 1850.
Who is John Calhoun?
300
A system in which the residents vote to decide an issue.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
300
This happened when southern states didnt not follow acts of congrees because they claimed the law was unconstitutional.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
300
The ability to start your own business
What is entrepreneurship?
400
A politial party formed formed in 1834 to oppose the policies of Andrew Jackson.
What is a Whig?
400
The house speaker that promoted the American System.
Who is Henry Clay?
400
An abolishtionist that believed God had picked on him to fight slavery.
Who is john Brown?
400
A place in Virginia that was the sence of an attack of a band of 21 men of both black and whites to sieze ferderal arsenals and distribute arms to the slaves in the area.
What is Harper's Ferry?
500
This event enabled Abraham Lincoln to take office.