People
Politics
Causes of the C.W.
Vocab Terms
Grab Bag
100
The inventor of the cotton gin and interchangeable parts.
Who is Eli Whitney?
100
Texas separated itself from Mexico in 1836 & it later voted for this this by the United States.
What is annexation?
100
In 1820, this kept the Senate balanced and drew a line at 36*30'N.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
100
The idea that the white Americans were meant to spread the boundaries of the US to the Pacific Ocean, often due to a divine right.
What is Manifest Destiny?
100
This is the name of the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution, ratified in Dec. 1791
What is the Bill of Rights?
200
This South Carolina Vice President led the Nullification movement.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
200
Issued in Dec. 1823, the president declared that the American continents should no longer be viewed as open to colonization.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
200
This polarizing court decision meant that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional & void.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
200
The reform movement that called for the immediate end to slavery.
What is abolition/Abolitionist Movement?
200
The sale of a large piece of land by Napoleon to the United States in April 1803, which opened the doors for westward expansion.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
300
This woman was a conductor of the Underground Railroad, the network that helped slaves escape to freedom.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
300
The forced removal and subsequent march of 1000s of Native Americans from their home lands to Oklahoma.
What is the Indian Removal Act of 1830? (will also accept Trail of Tears for partial credit)
300
This is why Lincoln won the Presidential Election of 1860
The fact that the Democrats had 2 candidates (N-Douglas & S-Breckinridge), but the Republicans (mostly N, free-soilers, abolitionists) only had 1.
300
The American Party/Know Nothings was formed based on their anti-immigrant policies and feelings of this.
What is Nativism? (a preference for native-born people and a desire to limit immigration)
300
Name 3 important inventions mentioned in the book from the Industrial or Transportation Revolutions.
Steamboat, Trains/Railroads, Interchangeable parts, Telegraph, Cotton Gin
400
Involved in Bleeding Kansas, this man would attempt a rebellion on slaveholders at Harpers Ferry in 1859.
Who is John Brown?
400
What is the difference between Enumerated & Implied Powers?
Enumerated=specifically mentioned in the Const. Implied=(from the "necessary & proper clause in Art. 1 Sec. 8) powers not explicitly listed in the Const., but necessary for the govt. to do it's job
400
Name 4 of the provisions of the Compromise of 1850.
1)CA admitted as a free state 2)Slave trade, but not slavery, abolished in D.C. 3)Popular Sovereignty for Utah & New Mexico 4)Texas border dispute w/NM solved, $ 5) Fugitive Slave Act
400
To leave or withdraw from the Union.
What is secede/secession?
400
The name of the new nation formed by Southern States on Feb. 8, 1861 with Jefferson Davis as their President.
What is the Confederate States of America?
500
This woman, along with Lucretia Mott, led the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
500
This right was asserted in the case of Marbury v. Madison(1803).
What is the Supreme Court's power of judicial review?
500
This book (and author) told about the horrors, spread the abolitionist movement in the North.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe?
500
The idea that citizens of each new territory should be allowed to decide for themselves if they wanted to permit slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
500
This escaped slaved was the publisher of his own anti-slavery newspaper, The North Star, and his own autobiography.
Who is Frederick Douglas?
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