1. 1820’s – 1860’s
Vocabulary

2. Nationalism
Devotion to the interests and culture of one’s nation.

3. Sectionalism
The placing of the interests of one’s own region ahead of the interests of the nation as a whole.

4. American System
Pre-Civil War measures to help unify the nation and strengthen the economy.
Protective tariffs
National bank

5. Popular Sovereignty
Residents vote to decide an issue.

6. Delegated Powers
Powers given by the Constitution to the national government.

7. Implied Powers
Powers given to the federal government that allow government to create laws that are “necessary and proper”.

8. Manifest Destiny
Belief that the U.S. should expand westward to the Pacific Ocean and into Mexican territory.

9. Monroe Doctrine
A policy of U.S. opposition to any European interference in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere.
President Monroe- 1823

10. Missouri Compromise 1820 Maine = free state Missouri = slave state
Banned slavery in the northern part of Louisiana Purchase.

11. Compromise of 1850 California = Free State
Stricter Fugitive Slave Law-escaped slaves to be returned
Slave trade prohibited in Washington, D.C.
Utah and New Mexico territories decide about slavery.

12. Kansas-Nebraska Act
1854
These territories gave their residents the right to decide whether to allow slavery or not.
Bleeding Kansas

13. Spoils System
Giving government jobs to supporters of a political party/candidate.

14. Indian Removal Act
1830
Law that forced Native Americans east of the Mississippi to move to lands in the West.
Trail of Tears

15. Abolition
A movement to end slavery.

16. McCulloch v. Maryland
1819
No state could tax a federally chartered bank.
National Supremacy

17. Gibbons v. Ogden
1824
States regulate intrastate commerce (within the state).
Congress regulates interstate commerce (state to state).

18. Worchester v. Georgia
1832
The federal government, not the state government, has control over the Native Americans.
President Jackson defied ruling and removed the Native Americans anyway .

19. Dred Scott v. Sanford
1857
Ruled that African Americans were not citizens, but property that can be taken anywhere.