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5.1: Sectionalism from 1820-1850
Follow along in the student packet: “Content students MUST KNOW to be successful on the GHSGT” (pg. 87-89)
Nullification Crisis18281828: Tariff of AbominationsProtected Northern industrySoutherners were outraged
18321832: Another high tariff John C. Calhoun threatened that South Carolina would nullify the tariff
President Andrew Jackson created the Force Bill to make SC pay
18331833: Henry Clay created a lower, “compromise tariff” to end the issue
Territorial Expansion by 1850
CaliforniaCalifornia•The discovery of gold in California led to a gold rush in 1849
The Compromise of 1850
CA admitted as a free state
Popular sovereignty would decide slavery in
Utah & New Mexico
A stronger Fugitive Slave Law was
created to appease the South
Ended the slave trade in Washington DC (but not slavery)
Key Abolitionists
Frederick Douglass was a
former slave who fought to abolish slavery
William Lloyd Garrison, editor
of the newspaper The Liberator, fought to abolish
slavery.
Harriet Tubman led the Underground Railroad
Who published The Liberator and believed in the immediate and complete abolition of slavery?
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1. The Grimke sisters2. William Lloyd Garrison3. Harriet Tubman4. Frederick Douglas5. Harriet Beecher Stowe
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This person was a former slave who learned to read and write and lectured on the evils of slavery?
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Stowe
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The Missouri Compromise did all of the following EXCEPT
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1. Maine became a free state
2. Missouri became a slave state
3. Opened all the territories to slavery
4. Preserved the balance of free and slave states 10
The Compromise of 1850 did all of the following EXCEPT
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free state2. New Mexico became a
slave state3. Introduced the
concept of “popular sovereignty”
4. Preserved the balance of free and slave states 10
According to popular sovereignty, the question of whether or not slavery would be allowed in a territory would be decided by
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1. Residents of the territory
2. The Senate3. The House of
Representatives4. The President
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John C. Calhoun believed that state governments had a right to declare federal laws unconstitutional because
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1. States were elected by the people.
2. States spoke more directly to the people.
3. States had created the national government.
4. States existed before the National government. 10
Jackson did not accept “nullification” because he believed it
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1. threatened the federal government’s power and authority
2. gave Congress too much power over the states
3. took away powers from the state governments
4. made the federal government too powerful
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President Polk wanted Mexico to take military action against the U.S. in the 1840’s because
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buy their gunpowder from the U.S.
2. Mexico wouldn’t accept U.S. offer to buy land.
3. Mexico wouldn’t enter the Industrial Revolution.
4. Polk thought the U.S. was better at defense than offense.
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Polk used this as grounds for declaring war against Mexico
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1. Nonpayment of debts
2. Declaration of the border
3. Attack on General Zachary Taylor’s forces
4. Annexation of Texas 10