Unit 4 Antebellum Vocabulary

pre- Civil War period in the United States

agricultural crop raised and sold for profit

institutions of learning that are funded by taxpayers for students through their teenaged years

movement to end slavery

individual states have political powers related to the federal government

planting, growing and harvesting of crops

economy in which crops are grown and exported- work was labor intensive and involved slaves.

artificial waterway used for travel and shipping from the Hudson River to Lake Erie

1820 agreement - admission of one free and one slave state to maintain the balance in the Union

economic plan devised by Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun - high tariffs and a national bank

This is the right to vote

created by Eli Whitney; separated the seed from the cotton fibers

political loyalty to one's own region of the country

This controversial tariff was passed in 1828 to protect northern manufacturing and trade

principle that a state government can declare a law of the national government invalid

separation of daily activities that is based on (usually) racial makeup.