Social Reform & Second Great Awakening
Clue: This nationwide religious revival during the early 19th century emphasized individual salvation and inspired numerous social reform movements across the United States.
Answer: What is the Second Great Awakening?
Clue: This formerly enslaved orator, author, and abolitionist published the influential anti-slavery newspaper The North Star
Answer: Who is Frederick Douglass?
Clue: Coined by journalist John O'Sullivan in 1845, this term expressed the belief that America was divinely ordained to expand across the North American continent.
Answer: What is Manifest Destiny?
Clue: Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820, slavery was prohibited in the Louisiana Purchase territory north of this specific parallel line.
Answer: What is 36°30' N latitude?
Clue: Designed by Stephen Douglas, this political doctrine allowed territorial voters to decide for themselves whether to permit or prohibit slavery.
Answer: What is Popular Sovereignty?
Clue: Known as the "Father of Modern Public Education," this reformer advocated for free, tax-funded public schools and professional teacher training.
Answer: Who is Horace Mann?
Clue: He published the radical anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator and demanded the immediate, uncompensated emancipation of all enslaved people.
Answer: Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
Clue: This expansionist U.S. President fulfilled key campaign promises by annexing Texas, securing the Oregon Territory, and leading the nation through the Mexican-American War.
Answer: Who is James K. Polk?
Clue: To maintain the balance between free and slave states in the Senate under the Missouri Compromise, Missouri entered as a slave state while this state entered as a free state.
Answer: What is Maine?
Clue: Violence erupted in the territory of Kansas following the passage of the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act, earning the region this ominous nickname.
Answer: What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
Clue: Driven primarily by women and religious leaders, this reform movement sought to eliminate or strictly regulate the production and consumption of alcohol.
Answer: What is the Temperance Movement?
Clue: This 1831 slave revolt in Virginia resulted in the deaths of over 50 white citizens and led Southern states to pass far harsher slave codes.
Answer: What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
Clue: John Gast's famous 1872 painting depicting an allegorical Columbia moving westward carrying a telegraph line and schoolbook is titled this.
Answer: What is American Progress?
Clue: As part of the Compromise of 1850, California was admitted as a free state in exchange for the passage of this federal law heavily favored by Southern slaveholders.
Answer: What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
Clue: In the 1857 Dred Scott v. Sandford ruling, Chief Justice Roger Taney declared that enslaved African Americans were not citizens and ruled this 1820 compromise unconstitutional.
Answer: What is the Missouri Compromise?
Clue: Held in 1848, this landmark assembly organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton produced the "Declaration of Sentiments," formally demanding women's suffrage.
Answer: What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
Clue: This charismatic abolitionist and women's rights advocate delivered the famous 1851 speech "Ain't I a Woman?", connecting racial and gender equality.
Answer: Who is Sojourner Truth?
Clue: Signed in 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the Mexican-American War and ceded California and New Mexico to the U.S. under this collective land title.
Answer: What is the Mexican Cession?
Clue: Rapid population growth caused by this 1849 event in California bypassed typical territorial stages and forced Congress to draft the Compromise of 1850.
Answer: What is the California Gold Rush?
Clue: In 1859, radical abolitionist John Brown led an attack on a federal armory in this Virginia town to incite an armed slave uprising.
Answer: What is Harpers Ferry?
Clue: While both the Temperance and Women's Suffrage movements stemmed from Christian moral reform ideals, they differed fundamentally in political goal. State one key difference in their primary objectives.
Answer: What is: Temperance focused on social behavior and legal prohibition of alcohol, whereas the Women's Suffrage movement targeted constitutional equality and political voting rights?
Clue: Abolitionists utilized primary source narratives (like Douglass's autobiography) alongside secondary news reports primarily to expose Northern audiences to this aspect of slavery.
Answer: What is the moral evil, systemic cruelty, and unconstitutional nature of the institution?
Clue: This controversial legislative proposal during the Mexican-American War sought to ban slavery in any newly acquired Mexican territory, dramatically escalating sectional tensions.
Answer: What is the Wilmot Proviso?
Clue: Beyond admitting California and implementing a strict fugitive slave law, the Compromise of 1850 banned this specific practice in Washington, D.C.
Answer: What is the slave trade (buying and selling enslaved people)?
Clue: The election of Abraham Lincoln in November 1860 without carrying a single Southern electoral vote directly caused this state to secede from the Union first.
Answer: What is South Carolina?