What rapidly spreading movement especially in the North caused John C. Calhoun to deliver this speech ("Slavery, a Positive Good") in the Senate?
Federalism
Agrarianism
Abolitionism
Utopianism
When was this speech ("Slavery, a Positive Good") delivered?
1820
1837
1850
1854
Not very long before this speech , John C. Calhoun had developed a theory that made him famous. It was . . .
the quantum theory
the theory of nullification
popular sovereignty
creationism
What did South Carolina assert was unfair on Southern agriculture for the benefit of Northern industry?
the fugitive slave clause
the Missouri Compromise (1820)
the Tariff of Abominations
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
What theory had Calhoun developed in the wake of the sectional conflicts about heavy duties on imported goods?
Madisonian Constitutionalism
Popular sovereignty
Separation of powers
Nullification
What notion, or concept or theory does the following quotation illustrate: "A large portion of the Northern States believed slavery to be a sin, and would consider it as an obligation of conscience to abolish it if they should feel themselves in any degree responsible for its continuance"?
unionism
politics of conscience
the Great Compromise
the Little Compromise
What notion, or concept or theory does the following quotation paradoxically illustrate: "Abolition and the Union cannot coexist. As the friend of the Union I openly proclaim it."?
unionism
Politics of conscience
the Great Compromise
the Little Compromise
Which is one of the major underlying concepts in this speech?
the spirit of accommodation
fraternal amity
mutuality
sectionalism
What does this speech seem to put an end to?
slavery
abolitionism
the compromise tradition
agrarianism
Who does the following quotation—" I then predicted that the doctrine of the proclamation and the Force Bill that this Government had a right, in the last resort, to determine the extent of its own powers, and enforce its decision at the point of the bayonet, which was so warmly maintained by that Senator, would at no distant day arouse the dormant spirit of abolitionism"—clearly allude to?
Henry Clay
Andrew Jackson
Noah Webster
Daniel Webster
What does Calhoun violently attack in the following quotation: " I then predicted that the doctrine of the proclamation and the Force Bill that this Government had a right, in the last resort, to determine the extent of its own powers, and enforce its decision at the point of the bayonet, which was so warmly maintained by that Senator, would at no distant day arouse the dormant spirit of abolitionism"?
the Omnibus Bill
President Jackson’s wrong vision of federalism
the fugitive slave clause in the Constitution
the Fugitive Slave Act
What does John C. Calhoun allude to when he says: " At the last session we were modestly asked to receive them [petitions], simply to lay them on the table, without any view to ulterior action. . . .
the gag rule
the Nullification Theory
the Tariff of Abominations
the Force Bill
What danger does John C. Calhoun try to intimidate the Senate with in this speech?
secession
social unrest
strike
anthrax
What argument does John C. Calhoun put forward to justify the perpetuation of slavery in this passage?
Slaves not going on strike.
Slavery mentioned in the Bible.
Slaves satisfied with their condition.
"Civilizing" the people from Central Africa.
What principle or notion did the theory of nullification put forward?
The people are not the source of sovereignty
States' rights (and interests)
Natural (human) inalienable rights
The right to reform Government
In the following quotation—“[The Government of the United States] is federal, because it is the government of States united in political union, in contradistinction to a government of individuals socially united; that is, by what is usually called, a social compact. To express it more concisely, it is federal and not national, because it is the government of a community of States, and not the government of a single State or nation”—what personal notion, or concept or theory or doctrine does Calhoun cling to?