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16 Cards in this Set
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Whigs
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conservative party represented american businesses, primarily in the north
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Democratic-Republicans a.k.a. Democrats
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liberal party represented the needs of farmers, primarily in the south
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Senator Daniel Webster
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the spokesman of the whigs
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Senator John Calhoun
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the spokesman of the democrats
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Senator Henry Clay ("The Great Comprimiser")
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A western senator who helped the north and south cmprimise
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Orator
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a person who can deliver a great speech
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Protective Tariff
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a tax on imported goods designed to make imported goods more expensive than domestic goods
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Imported Goods
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goods made in a foreign country
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Domestic Goods
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goods made in the United States
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Tariff of 1828 ("Tariff of Abominations")
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a protective tariff that raised imports 40%
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Compromise Tariff of 1833
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a compromise tariff introduced by Henry Clay giving the north a high tariff for a few years and then slowly lowering it back to the 1815 level for the south
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State's Rights
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when a state has control of deciding to be "free" or "slave"
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Nullification Act
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declaring the tariff of 1828 illegal and that south carolinians would not pay it
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Abolitionist/Abolish
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someone who wants to end slavery
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emancipation
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freedom of slaves
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William Lloyd Garrison
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an american reformer and journalist who became famous in the 1830's for his abolitionist newspaper the liberator which labeled slave holding as a crime. It was outlawed in some southern states.
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