Split the Cookie
Nasty Work
Can't We All Just Get Along?
Machines Are Taking Over!
El Presidente'
100

Split the country into slave and free states by drawing a line at the 36'30 parallel

Missouri Compromise

100

Network of safe houses and Abolitionist that assisted runaway slaves

Underground Railroad

100

First state to secede from the Union

South Carolina

100
Invention leading to the expansion of slavery westward

Cotton Gin

100

He was the first Republican president who led the Union during the Civil War 

Abraham Lincoln

200
Agreement on how to count slaves to make representation "fair" in Congress

Three-Fifths Compromise

200
Supreme Court decision that ruled black people could never become citizens, denying them civil rights

Dredd Scott Decision

200
Event that collided pro and anti slavery groups and led to a period of violence that set the stage for a civil war

Bleeding Kansas

200

Made long distance communication possible

Telegraph

200

This president believed in Manifest Destiny and acquired the southwestern part of the U.S.

James K Polk

300

The idea that settlers would vote on the issue of slavery and majority vote would win

Popular Sovereignty

300

Free Soilers and Abolitionists combined their efforts to oppose slavery by forming this political party

Republican Party

300

Novel about slavery that most southerners wrote off as lies and embellishments

Uncle Tom's Cabin

300

Period when society moved from agriculture and handmade goods to mass produced manufactured goods

Industrial Revolution

300

President who signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, who did nothing to stop Bleeding Kansas; son died before he took office

Franklin Pierce

400
This compromise did not appease either side of the slave debate; admitted California as a free state and made it illegal to assist runaway slaves

Compromise of 1850

400

Compromise of 1850 also banned the slave trade in this city

Washington, D.C.

400

The last straw that sent the South into secession

The Election of Abraham Lincoln (1860)

400

Term describing population shift from southern rural areas to northern cities

Urbanization
400

President who sent his troops to South Carolina to enforce a tariff, dealt with the "Nullification Crisis"

Andrew Jackson

500
Settled the differences of representation between big and small states during the Constitutional Convention

Great Compromise

500
Ruling the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional made this possible

Expansion of Slavery

500

Slave law that was mostly ignored by the North; sparked the need for the Underground Railroad

Fugitive Slave Act

500

First of its kind, enabled long distance travel; was the initial reason for the Kansas-Nebraska Act

Transcontinental Railroad

500

President who signed the Compromise of 1850, rhymes with Dillard Spillmore

Millard Fillmore

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