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18 Cards in this Set
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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, lived in tents and small shacks, and participated in numerous worship services |
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blue laws |
regulations enacted by state and local governments to restrict activities on Sunday |
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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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mill village |
a company-owned cluster of housing near a mill or factory |
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nationalism |
the sense of pride in one's country, its people, its institutions and government |
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internal imrpovements |
government projects to improve transportation and trade, such as roads, bridges, and canals |
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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 on imports that is high enough to protect American manufactured goods from competition from cheaper foreign goods |
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Missouri Compromise |
a compromise of 1820 which allowed Missouri into the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state |
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abolitionist |
a person who wanted to do away with slavery |
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nullify |
to declare a law invalid and of no effect |
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succession |
dissolving a state's connection to the nation and becoming a new 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 |
a compromise in which California was admitted to the Union as a free state and a new Fugitive Slave Act was passed |
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Fugitive Slave Act |
a law that required all citizens, North and South, to assist in catching and returning runaway slaves to their owners |
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fire-eaters |
southerners who actively advocated secesion |
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Kansas-Nebraska Act |
an 1854 act that allowed the people who moved to those territories to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery |
