The Road to War Flashcards
The invention of the cotton gin immediately made it more profitable to grow cotton, and it revolutionized agriculture in South Carolina. What task did the cotton gin perform?
Pulled the seeds out of the cotton fibers
Slavery might have died a slow death in South Carolina had it not been for the ____________.
Cotton Gin
Why did the cotton gin increases the need for slaves by reducing the need for labor to complete the task?
Increase in the number and size of cotton plantations.
What led to the establishment of equal representation of the Low Country and the Up Country in the legislature?
Up Country grew cotton making it important.
An exaggerated loyalty to one’s own area rather than to the country as a whole is known as ______________.
Sectionalism
How did the invention of the cotton gin affect slavery in the South?
It revived slavery in the South.
Due to the North’s growing population, what can be concluded about the number of representatives from the salve states in the House of Representatives and the Senate?
The slave states had less representatives in the House of Representatives and equal in the Senate.
Why was the admission of Missouri as a slave state controversial, especially in the Senate?
Upset the balance of slave and free states.
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 preserved the balance between the free states of the North and the slave states of the South. How?
Missouri became a slave state and Maine became a free state.
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 established the southern boundary of Missouri as an important political divider. According to the compromise, what did this line divide?
Free states are in the North and slave states are in the South.
Why did southerners oppose protective tariffs?
There is not much industry and relied heavily on imported goods.
The belief that the rights and powers of the states should take precedence over the rights and powers of the federal government is known as
________________.
States’ Rights’
The idea that the state has the right to refuse to obey a federal law if the state believes the law is unconstitutional and violates the states’ rights and sovereignty is known as ____________.
Nullification
What was Vice-President John C. Calhoun’s position on the nullification crisis?
States do have the right to nullify a law if it was damaging the state.
Who led the South’s fight against the tariff of 1828 (Tariff of Abominations).
John C. Calhoun
How did President Andrew Jackson respond when South Carolina passed a resolution claiming nullification if the 1828 and 1832 tariffs?
Treason; threatened to send federal troops.
What was the difference between the nullifiers and the unionists?
Nullifiers opposed the federal government and the unionists are in favor of the federal government.
How did the nullification crisis of the 1830’s come to an end?
Compromise the tariff and lower it gradually over time.
What did the nullification crisis reveal about the South and the extent to which the region would go to in order to protect its interest?
The South would not tolerate any law that threatened slavery?
What was the event Denmark Vesey was trying to organize?
A slave revolt.
Why was Denmark Vesey’s revolt spoiled before it ever got started?
A slave told his master.
Vesey’s plot led to more slave codes and more defenses to protect the white population. It also changed the attitude of South Carolinians toward the institution of slavery. How?
All South Carolinians began defending slavery.
