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Antebellum/Sectional

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