| A | B |
|---|
| age of common man | all white men vote, new style of campaigning |
| democratic spirit | represented best by Pres. Andrew Jackson |
| spoils system | how Jackson rewarded people who got him elected with Jobs |
| Democratic Party | opposed by Whigs and Know-Nothings |
| North | region that favored high tariffs |
| South | region that hated high tariffs |
| Missouri Compromise | divided louisiana Purchase, made Main free state |
| 36 30 line | what divided the louisiana territory into slave and free |
| Compromise of 1850 | Ca became free state |
| popular sovreignty | people in territories decide about slavery |
| Kansas Nebraska Act | people of these territories vote on being slave or free |
| "Bleeding Kansas" | result of Kansas Nebraska Act, many killed |
| Republican Party | formed to oppose spread of slavery |
| nullify | void out, or ignore (as in a law) |
| Tariff of 1832 | South Car. wanted to nullify this tax |
| Nullification crisis | when states felt they could ignore federal laws, even seceed |
| pres. Jackson | said he would send troops to south |
| pres. Jackson | hated bank of U.S. and vetoed a lot |
| slave revolts | led by Nat Turner and Gabriel Prosser |
| slave laws | were harsh, caused by white fear of slave revolts |
| William Lloyd Garrison | published the Liberator (abolitionist) |
| Christian principles | why abolitionists felt slavery wrong |
| slavery | main issue dividing north and south |
| Seneca Falls Declaration | said women are equal too |
| Eliz. Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony | led women's rights movement |
