A | B |
environment | Your surroundings. The South was good for slavery but the North was not |
religion | People in the North came to America for this reason while people in the South came to make money |
reform | To change things for the better. People in the North wanted to but people in the South wanted to stay the same |
Great Awakening | Religious reform that happened in the North and caused people to try to change American society for the better eventually leading to the anti-slavery movement. |
Declaration of Independence | Discussed freedom and equality. Caused states in the North to outlaw slavery while the South kept slavery |
liberal | Many of these people lived in the North, they wanted the government to have more power to fix problems |
conservative | Many of these people lived in the South, they wanted the states and the people to have the power not the National government that scared them |
Elastic Clause | Part of the Constitution that said Congress could make any law that was "necessary or proper." Southern conservatives did not like that! |
broad and vague | Describes the president's powers. Increased the president's powers making southern conservatives more afraid of government power |
Supremacy Clause | Made the national government stronger than the states, upset the South because they wanted their states to have more power |