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Standard Indicator 8-4.3: 1. Antebellum Era
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This led to growing sectionalism and controversy over the expansion of slavery to the territories.
The first indicator of national trouble between the north and the south came when ______ applied for statehood.
Why were the Northern States concerned about Missouri joining the Union as a slave state?
Describe the compromise that was reached.
How did the Missouri Compromise try to avoid future controversy?
What did Southerners learn from the crisis?
What was the Nullification crisis a result of?
How is a protective tariff designed to work?
Who would the protective tariff benefit?
How would a protective tariff raise the price of manufactured goods for South Carolinians?
When the United States Congress passed the protective tariff of 1828, how did Vice President John C. Calhoun
respond?
What did Calhoun claim under the compact theory?
How did this theory threaten the unity of the United States?
What 2 groups were South Carolinians split into, when dealing with States’ Rights?
In 1832, the ________ won control of the General Assembly.
When the US Congress passed another tariff in 1832, describe the actions of the SC assembly.
John C. Calhoun resigned his Vice Presidency and entered the _________ where he was a strong voice against the
tariff and nullification.
Describe the actions that President Andrew Jackson took toward South Carolina.
How was the crisis resolved?
Describe the compromise that ensued.
When South Carolina nullified the Force Bill, what did this assert?
Since the Force Bill was never actually put into effect, the controversy was _______.
The states’ rights idea would develop and evolve into the ___________________.
This theory believed the US was a mere _____________ of states, not a binding union.
What did the theory of secession, allow states to do?
Under this compact theory, the ________ were more powerful that the federal union that was the ______________.
The states’ rights theories of both nullification and secession would both be tested and disproven by
__________________.
Continued expansion as a result of the ___________ led to further controversy over the expansion of slavery.
How did the California territory become part of the United States?
After the discovery of ______ in 1849, people flocked to California.
Why did the Californians want to have “free soil”?
What did the Compromise of 1850 allow?
Define Popular Sovereignty.
How did Popular Sovereignty relate to the rest of the Mexican Cession?
What did the Fugitive Slave Law allow for?
Why was the Fugitive Slave Law so controversial in the North?
What book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe highlighted much of the misery suffered by the slaves?
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What was the Kansas-Nebraska act the result of?
Where was the Kansas territory located? Why was it restricted from becoming a slave state?
What did politicians want to build across Kansas? Did they need Southern support?
What did Southerners, especially Jefferson Davis, not want to build across Kansas?
What did the Kansas-Nebraska act repeal?
What did the act allow for the territories to decide?
What happened to people who wanted to affect the vote?
Why was the area known as “Bleeding Kansas”?
Because of much of the violence, what party did much of the Northern Whigs and Northern Democrats join?
What was the Free Soil party opposed to?
Who supported the Liberty Party?
What party did these two parts combine to form?
The _________ decision was an attempt by the Supreme Court to end the controversy over the role of Free states in
determining the status of the enslaved.
Describe the events that led to the Dred Scott case.
Discuss the decision that the Supreme Court made with the Dred Scott case.
Why were the acts ruled unconstitutional?
What did northerners claim about the Dred Scott decision?
Debates over the Dred Scott issue led __________ to national prominence and further split the Democratic Party.
What did Abolitionist John Brown do?
What did the publicity of his trial lead to?
How did the trial lead to further sectionalism?
What did the southerners feel about the election of a republican candidate?
What prompted South Carolina to secede from the union?
What did Abraham Lincoln campaign on?
What is Free Soil?
Was Lincoln an abolitionist?
How did Lincoln win the election?
How did the South and Border States vote?
What did South Carolina do after Lincoln was elected?
How many other states seceded soon after?