
DFA Three Part One Vocabulary Review
Quiz by Steven Jones
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The period in the United States before the Civil War (especially in the South).
When people care more about their region (North, South, or West) than the whole country.
A tax on imported goods (products brought in from other countries).
A tariff made to protect United States factories by making foreign goods cost more.
The idea that a state can ignore (“nullify”) a federal law it thinks is unfair.
The belief that states should have more power than the federal government in certain areas.
A South Carolina leader and United States Vice President who strongly supported slavery and states’ rights.
A law that allowed people in new territories to vote on whether to allow slavery.
A Supreme Court ruling that said enslaved people were property, not citizens, and that Congress could not stop slavery from spreading.
An agreement in 1820 that allowed Missouri to be a slave state and Maine to be a free state, keeping balance in Congress.
A movement of people who wanted to end slavery in the United States.
Tension or arguments between different parts of the country.