The controversial "slave" state annexed into the United States under James K. Polk after winning its independence from Mexico.
Texas
100
Economy centered upon Industry
North
100
What does it mean to nullify a federal law?
to ignore/not follow it
100
As seen in the Dred Scott decision, which region or "section" of the US controlled the Supreme Court during the Antebellum period?
The South
100
What is the vocab term that means a movement to end slavery.
Abolitionism
200
This state was brought in as a "free" state in the Compromise of 1850 as part of the Mexican Cession.
California
200
Economy centered upon the plantation system.
South
200
Which amendment protects the power/rights of states?
10th
200
Though it passed the House, the Wilmot Proviso, which declared that all land of the Mexican Cession be "free soil" failed to become law because it didn't pass in the...
The US Senate
200
The former slave who went on to publish an abolitionist newspaper named "The North Star."
Frederick Douglass
300
Missouri was brought in as a slave state in 1820, but which state was brought in as a free state to keep the balance of right and slave equal?
Maine
300
Economy centered upon abundant land used for farming of corn, fruits, nuts, and ranching of cattle.
West
300
The issue that angered South Carolina leading to the Nullification Crisis in 1832.
a high tariff
300
Besides continued legal slavery in Washington DC name one thing the south got in the compromise of 1850?
a strict fugitive slave law
300
The system of safe houses used by people such as Harriet Tubman to get escaped slaves to the north.
Underground Railroad
400
Kansas was to be admitted as a state in 1854. However, the people would decided the issue of slavery in Kansas. What is it called when people vote on the legality of slavery in their state?
popular sovereignty
400
He offered a system that would connect the northeast and northwest by instituting a high tariff to pay for internal improvements in the west (canals, roads, etc...), the south wasn't happy...
Henry Clay
400
Which was the first state to secede from the Union in 1861?
South Carolina
400
The completion of this 1825 allowed for an all water route from the Great Lakes states to the Atlantic Ocean, further linking the northeastern states to the northwest and increasing sensationalist tensions.
Erie Canal
400
What was the name of the Abolitionist political party that had little success getting people elected to government during the Antebellum period?
Liberty Party
500
In 1845, this former Spanish territory that was ceded to the U.S. in 1821 became a "slave" state.
Florida
500
What was the name given to the type of segregation in the north that existed as "a matter of fact" in the north during the antebellum period?
De facto segregation
500
The Virginia & Kentucky Resolutions were attempts to nullify what?
Alien & Sedition Acts
500
Before they were Lincoln's Republican Party they were called this, because members wanted to protect white farm labor by preventing competition of slave labor in the new territories.
Free Soil Party
500
Name given to white folks that roamed the south looking for escaping slaves or slaves that weren't on their plantation.