5.1: Sectionalism from 1820-1850
 Follow
along in the student packet:
“Content students MUST KNOW to be
successful on the GHSGT” (pg. 87-89)
Missouri Compromise, 1820
Tariffs & the Nullification Crisis
Nullification Crisis
 1828:
Tariff of Abominations
 Protected Northern industry
 Southerners were outraged
 1832: Another high tariff
 John C. Calhoun threatened that
South Carolina would nullify the tariff
 President Andrew Jackson created
the Force Bill to make SC pay
 1833: Henry Clay created a lower,
“compromise tariff” to end the issue
Wilmot Proviso,
The Mexican-American
War1846
Territorial Expansion by 1850
California
•The discovery of gold
in California led to a
gold rush in 1849
Territorial Expansion by 1850
The Compromise of 1850
CA admitted as
a free state
Ended the slave trade
in Washington DC
(but not slavery)
Popular sovereignty
would decide slavery in
Utah & New Mexico
A stronger Fugitive
Slave Law was
created to appease
the South
Key Abolitionists
Harriet Tubman led the
Underground Railroad
Frederick
Douglass was a
former slave
who fought to
abolish slavery
William Lloyd
Garrison, editor
of the newspaper
The Liberator,
fought to abolish
slavery.
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national government.
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Jackson did not accept “nullification”
because he believed it
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threatened the federal
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President Polk wanted Mexico to take
military action against the U.S. in the
1840’s because
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Mexico would have to
buy their gunpowder
from the U.S.
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Mexico wouldn’t accept
U.S. offer to buy land.
3.
Mexico wouldn’t enter
the Industrial Revolution.
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Polk used this as grounds for
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the border
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Zachary Taylor’s
forces
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The Wilmot Proviso proposed
that slavery should be banned
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