IMPORTANT PEOPLE
IMPORTANT LOCATIONS
BACKGROUND FACTORS
BACKGROUND IDEAS
Crazies
100

Man who invented the cotton gin, making slavery more profitable

Who was Eli Whitney?

100
First Southern state to leave the Union
What was South Carolina?
100

Large Southern farms

What is plantation?

100

When opposing groups of the same country fight a war

What is a civil war?

100

led the raid on Harpers Ferry

What is John Brown?

200

Man elected President in 1860

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

200
Many escaping slaves used this to guide them to freedom when they traveled at night
What is the North Star
200

Tax on goods brought into the country from foreign lands

What is a tariff?

200

Nickname for Henry Clay

What is the "Great Compromiser"?

200

Secret political party in the 1850s

What is Know-nothings?

300

Slave who escaped from Maryland and became a famous abolitionist

Who is Fredrick Douglas

300
Henry Clay's home state
Kentucky
300

Political party formed in 1854

What is the Republican party?

300
Nickname for Stephen A. Douglas because of his size
What is the Little Giant?
300

Assassinated Abraham Lincoln

Who is John Wilkes Booth?

400

Harriet Tubman's nickname

Who is Moses?

400
Site of a famous raid on a federal arsenal
What is Harpers Ferry?
400

Newspaper started by Fredrick Douglas

What is the Liberator?

400
Idea that a state could outlaw or refuse to obey a law passed by Congress
What is Nullification?
400

Considered the worst President. He preceded Lincoln

Who is James Buchanan?

500

Black preacher who led a slave revolt in Virginia in 1831

Who is Nat Turner?

500
Area flooded by new Northern and Southern voterswhen it sought statehood
What is Kansas?
500

Bill that said slavery should be forbidden in all lands taken from Mexico

Wilmot Provisio

500
Slaves were considered this by their owners
What is property?
500

South Carolinian Who led the nullification of crisis against Jackson in the 1830s

Who is John C. Calhoun

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