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Antebellum/Sectional
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Antebellum | Time before the war specifically the American Civil War |
| Sectionalism | Loyalty to a particular region of the country rather than the country as a whole |
| What caused Sectionalism? | Differences in geography, economics, and culture. |
| Economic difference between the North and the South | North-Small Farms, Trade, Factories South- Large Plantations, Farming, Slaves |
| South's justification of slavery | They claimed that the slaves in the south were treated better than the factory workers in the North |
| How were abolitionists treated in the South? | Kept quiet or forced to leave town |
| Why did abolitionist Newspapers and flyers have little effect on the South? | The mail persons threw it away. |
| How did the Underground RR affect SC? | It did not, because SC was not a border state |
| Why did the population of the North increase? | Irish Potato Famine |
| Why was Missouri's statehood an issue? | Upset the balance of slave and free states |
| What was the predominant political party in the south during the Antebellum period? | Jacksonian Democrat |
| Missouri Compromise | Missouri would enter as a slave state but established the 36 30 line that divides future states into free and slave states |
| Nullify | To ignore or not follow |
| Protective Tariff | Tax on imported goods that benefited the North but hurt the South |
| Popular Sovereignty | Voting over the issue of a slave state and free state- most votes wins |
| Compromise of 1850 | California becomes a free state, the rest of mexico secession land decides on free/slave states over popular sovereignty |
| Fugitive Slave Law | Law that allows slave owners to reclaim their slaves if they escape |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | A book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that protests the Fugitive slave law |
| Missouri Compromise | Slavery could not be above the 36°/30° Parallel |
| Tariff of 1828 | Tax on imports from Europe that taxed the South more than the North. It ended with the US lowering the tax and SC repealing Nullification. |
| Fugitive slave Law | The North was forced to return slaves to the South. |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | Popular Sovreignty (People got to vote on whether Kansas was free or slave. |
| Dred Scott | A slave that sued for his freedom since he had been brought to free territory. |
| Dred Scott ruling | Slaves are property and not people and therefore cannot take legal action. |
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