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