The North
A tax on imports for the purpose of raising money.
Revenue Tariff
This was king in the South.
Cotton
Attempt to ruin an opponent's reputation with insults.
Mudslinging
Market Economy in which privately owned businesses have the freedom to operate for a profit with limited government intervention.
Free Enterprise System
A person who owns and cultivates a small farm. Most people in the South belonged to this group.
Yeoman Farmer
Winner of the election of 1824.
John Quincy Adams
Large canal located in New York state.
Erie Canal
Prolific senator from South Carolina.
John C. Calhoun
President who issued a declaration that European countries ought not to interfere with countries in the Western hemisphere.
James Monroe
Creator of the steamboat, "Clermont".
Robert Fulton
Free African American who was accused of plotting a rebellion and hanged. Historians debate the validity of the charges leveled against him.
Denmark Vesey
The winner of the election of 1828.
Andrew Jackson
Entrepreneur who opened several mills in North East Massachusetts, introducing mass production of cotton cloth to the United States.
Francis C. Lowell
enslaved African-American preacher who led a four-day rebellion of both enslaved and free black people in Southampton County, Virginia, beginning August 21, 1831. The rebellion caused the death of more than 50 white men, women and children.
Nat Turner
This territory's request to enter the Union as a state threatened the balance between free and slave states.
Missouri