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APUSH Midterm 6
Sectionalism 1820-1850
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Compromise of 1850 | Compromise between North and South on issue of slavery; California enters Union as free state and a stricter fugitive slave law is implemented |
| John C. Calhoun | Political theorist and vice president who favored Southern secession |
| Daniel Webster | Nationalistic views made him leader of Whig Party |
| William Lloyd Garrison | Radical abolitionist who called for immediate end to slavery |
| Frederick Douglass | Former slave who devoted himself to abolition by getting involved in politics |
| Sojourner Truth | Former slave; abolitionist and women's rights advocate |
| Harriet Tubman | Escaped slave who conducted Underground Railroad, risking life to help others escape |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe that became famous internationally and turned many people against slavery |
| American Slavery As It Is | Theodore Dwight Weld; powerful antislavery book |
| Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World | David Walker; call to awaken African Americans to seek unity and end struggle |
| The Impending Crisis of the South | Hinton Helper; took different antislavery angle--attempted to prove how slavery negatively affected Southern whites |
| Nullification Crisis | 1832; South Carolina fought to declare tariffs void in state; began SC idea of secession |
| Nat Turner Rebellion | 1831; Virginia slave rebellion |
| Free Soil Party | 1848; abolitionist political party |
| Irish & German Immigration | Influx of immigrants caused by potato famine and political conflicts and revolutions |
| Nativists | Anti-immigration group; mostly focused against Germans and Irish; also anti-Catholic |