Semester 1 Review
This massive global exchange shared people, animals, plants, and diseases between the East and West hemispheres.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This crazy abolitionist took over an US military depot, and later was executed because of it.
Who is John Brown?
This conflict happened as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
This Hallmark Supreme Court Case ruled that slaves weren’t citizens of the U.S., but rather property, effectively nullifying the Missouri Compromise.
What is Dred scott v Sanford?
This 1852 piece of literature left a profound impact on northern perspective and detailed the horrors of slavery.
What is the Publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
This 19th century American intellectual movement set forth the importance of an ideal world of mystical knowledge and harmony beyond immediate senses.
What is Transcendentalism?
This crazy representative beat a senator so severely that he had to receive medical treatment in Europe.
Who is Preston Brooks?
This legislation prevented slavery above the 36º 30' latitude line in the remainder of Louisiana territory.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
In this event, a representative beat a senator in Congress.
What is The Caning of Sumner?
This idea stated that the sovereign people of a territory should be the ones deciding the status of slavery within that territory
What is Popular Sovereignty?
This system exchanged receive passage across the Atlantic, room and board, and free status in the United States for agreeing to work for a time period without wages.
What is Indentured Servitude?
This chief supreme court justice ruled on a hallmark court case that declared that slaves were not citizens.
Who is John Taney?
This legislation used the concept of popular sovereignty to allow citizens in two new land divisions to vote whether to allow slavery.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This legislation mandated that all escaped slaves, upon capture, be returned to the enslaver, regardless of whether they were in northern states, and gave financial incentives for doing so.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850?
This political party opposed the expansion of slavery and depicted slavery as a threat to Republicanism and Jefferson's ideal of a freeholder society.
What is the Free Soil Party?
This 1764 British Law lowered the duty on French Molasses and raised penalties for smuggling.
What is The Sugar Act of 1764?
This person’s administration created the Ostend Manifesto, a document detailing the planned annexation of Cuba.
Who is Franklin Pierce?
This legislation banned slave trade in Washington DC, admitted California as a free state, and and added financial incentives to the fugitive slave act.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This piece of legislation attempted to enshrine slavery within the Constitution while reinstating the Missouri compromise.
What are the Crittenden Amendments?
This question, raised by Abraham Lincoln, asked whether the Court or the people should decide the future of slavery in the territories.
What is the Freeport Question?
These three aspects were the foundation of Alexander Hamilton's Financial Program.
What is the 1. (Report on) Public Credit 2. Creating a National Bank 3. Raising Revenue through Tariffs?
This president, ranked as one of the worst in American history, served only one term, supported the Crittenden Amendments, and whose actions fractured the Democratic Party, allowing Lincoln to be elected.
Who is James Buchanan?
This treaty, which added territory to Arizona and New Mexico, was a point of contention in the Compromise in 1850.
What is Gadsden Purchase?
This pro-slavery document allowed slavery in Kansas.
What is the Lecompton Constitution?
This abolitionist political argument claimed that southern slave owners were using their unfair representative advantage under the ⅗’s compromise to demand extreme federal proslavery policies.
What is the “Slave Power” Conspiracy?