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Who rules in a republic?

In 1832, South Carolina nullified the federal tariff and refused to collect the tax.  President Andrew Jackson threatened to respond with force.   A civil war might have broken out at this point.  Why didn’t it, according to the lectures?

What was the argument put forward the the “South Carolina Exposition and Protest?

So many people traveled the Oregon Trail that swales (ruts) from the trail are visible to this day.

In what ways did the Mexican-American War contribute to the coming Civil War?

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated during the second year of the Civil War.

The upper south hesitated to secede at first.  What action by Abraham Lincoln drove most of them out of the United States?

Plymouth, “The Errand into the Wilderness,” Pilgrims, Salem, Puritans, Charles Sumner.  These terms/people are all associated with Virginia.

BEGIN THE CUMULATIVE SECTION.  Cumulative questions are worth five points.  Remember, if you see A and B or All of the above as options, always pick one of those options.   If you were a southerner, a historian, and looking to the coming Civil War in 1861 (and of course had access to class lectures), which of the following factors in Northern history might raise concern that the South would be taking on a pretty ferocious enemy?  Why?

John C. Calhoun had little political experience and no legal education in 1828.