This led to the the US acquisition of vast new territories from Mexico.
What is the Mexican American War?
100
The invention of this machine reduced production costs of cotton and led to an increase in slavery in the American South.
What is the cotton gin?
100
The acceptance of California as a free state and the Fugitive Slave Law were part of this Congressional legislation.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
100
This immensely popular book expressed the arguments surrounding slaveholding and increased sectional divisions that eventually led to secession.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
100
This stated that the slaves in the rebellious states (those not under Union control) were free and made emancipation an explicit war aim of the North.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
200
This 1848 treaty ended the war between the US and Mexico.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
200
This movement was dedicated to the immediate and unconditional end of slavery in the US.
What is the abolitionist movement?
200
This 1854 act declared that settlers could vote to decide the free or slave status of the territories that it named.
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
200
This person's actions were seen my many as heroic in the North and as evil in the South.
Who is John Brown?
200
The federal government grew stronger during this event.
What is the Civil War?
300
Settlers moved here to, among other reasons, get rich and escape religious persecution.
What are the Western territories?
300
This early nineteenth century evangelical Protestant religious movement led many Christians to organize reform societies to teach moral and social values.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
300
This federal law made it easier for kidnappers to take free blacks.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
300
This event prompted secession.
What is the election of 1860?
300
Radical Reconstruction challenged this plan during Reconstruction.
What is Lincoln's 10% Plan?
400
The acquisition of this area led to an increase in sectional tensions over the expansion of slavery.
What is the Mexican Cession (territories that became California, Utah, Nevada, and parts of New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado)?
400
This institution was the basis of the biggest business in Upper South and enabled large-scale cotton production that fueled the growth of a world textile (cloth) industry.
What is slavery?
400
Opposition to Kansas Nebraska Act led to the collapse of the Whig Party and the formation of this new party.
What is the Republican Party?
400
This state was the first to secede.
What is South Carolina?
400
These were laws passed by the Southern states immediately after the Civil War to maintain white supremacy by restricting the rights of newly freed slaves.
What are the Black Codes?
500
The Compromise of 1850 stated that the slave or free status of the territories of New Mexico and Utah could be decided in this manner.
What is popular sovereignty?
500
White society in the pre-Civil War South was united by this political system.
What is "white man's democracy"?
500
The ruling in the case declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, stating that Congress had no power to prohibit slavery in federal territories.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
500
The election of President Lincoln led Southerners to worry the federal government would do this.
What is the abolition of slavery in Southern states?
500
This granted citizenship to African Americans after the Civil War.