Time Period Before the Civil War
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| Yeoman Farmer | Small landowning farmers
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| Camp Meeting | A religious and social event emerging from the Second Great Awakening where hundreds gathered for several days
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| States' Rights | The belief that the rights and powers of the states are more important than the rights and powers of the federal government
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| Blue Laws | Regulations enacted by state and local governments to restrict activities on Sunday
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| Mill Village | A company-owned cluster of houses near a mill or factory
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| Nationalism | Sense of pride in one's country, its people, its institutions, and government
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| Internal improvements | Government projects to improve transportation and trade
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| Sectionalism | Allegiance to one region of the country as opposed to loyalty to the broader interests of the whole country
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| Protective Tariff | A duty (tax) on imports that protects American manufactured goods from competition from cheaper goods made in other countries
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| Missouri Compromise | Allowed Maine into the Union as a free state and Missouri as a slave state
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| Abolitionists | People who wanted to do away with slavery
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| Nullify | Declare it invalid and of no effect within the state
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| Secession | Dissolving the state's connection to the nation and becoming a separate nation
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| Manifest Destiny | The belief that expansion of the nation across the continent to the Pacific Ocean was our God-given right
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| Compromise of 1850 | California admitted to the Union as a free state
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| Fugitive Slave Act | Required all citizens, North and South, to assist in catching and returning runaway slaves to their owners
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| Kansas-Nebraska Act | People who moved into these two territories to decide the issue of slavery
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