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| Sectionalism | Different parts of the country developing unique and separate cultures (as the North, South and West). This can lead to conflict. |
| Nullification Crisis | Argument between South Carolina and the federal government regarding the role of national government |
| Suffrage Movement | The drive for voting rights for women that took place in the United States from 1890 to 1920. |
| Abolition Movement | the campaign against slavery and the slave trade |
| Compromise of 1850 | (1) California admitted as free state, (2) territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico, (3) resolution of Texas-New Mexico boundaries, (4) federal assumption of Texas debt, (5) slave trade abolished in DC, and (6) new fugitive slave law; advocated by Henry Clay and Stephen A. Douglas |
| Fugitive Slave Act | A law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | Created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to choose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty. |
| Whig Party | An American political party formed in the 1830s to oppose President Andrew Jackson and the Democrats, stood for protective tariffs, national banking, and federal aid for internal improvements |
