These large gatherings of delegates from the states selected the party's presidential candidate.
What are nominating conventions?
100
This was the view of the slaves about the civil war.
What is it would save them and that Lincoln was a liberator?
100
This man led 18 men on a raid to collect an arsenal to go on a slave revolt.
Who was John Brown?
100
This is the idea that America should extend from coast to coast.
What is Manifest Destiny?
100
This woman was the leader of the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
200
This political party supported a central government, a central bank and the wealthy class.
Who were the National Republicans?
200
These men were the main leaders of the Abolitionist Movement.
Who are William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglas?
200
This man was the Republican party presidential candidate of 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
This purchase was made to allow the railroad to have a southern route.
What is the Gadsen Purchase?
200
This hero from the War of 1812 also became president.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
300
Prior to this time period, women were homemakers and did not do men's work.
What is the industrial revolution?
300
This was the movement that led to the founding of the Abolitionist movement.
What was the Great Awakening?
300
This was a result of Lincoln being elected president and the southern states being angry.
What was the secession of southern states?
300
This group of Native Americas were forced off their land and led on the Trail of Tears.
Who were the Cherokee?
300
This man was elected President by the Congress because there was a tie.
Who is John Quincy Adams?
400
Because they could be paid less, were seen as better suited for some factory jobs, and more workers were needed these people were brought into the workforce.
What is women?
400
Lincoln's view of slavery was this.
What is that all men should be free?
400
This court decision ruled that slaves are property and could not be granted their freedom.
What was the Dred Scott decision?
400
This act allowed the government to pay Indians for their land. It moved the tribe to Oklahoma and led to the Trail of Tears.
What was the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
400
This was a group of young ladies who worked in the factory in Massachusetts.
Who were the Lowell Girls?
500
For these reasons, men did not want women to be nurses during the Civil War.
What is they were too delicate and it was man's work?
500
When Lincoln said " a house divided against itself can not stand," he meant this.
What is that the country can not survive if it is split in half?
500
The main goal of the North during the Civil War.
(hint:it was not initially about ending slavery)
What is preserving the Union?
500
This president was determined to get the California and New Mexico territories from Mexico.
Who was James K. Polk?
500
This group of white Virginians bought slaves from slaveholders and sent them away to start new lives.