Semester 1 Review
The first permanent English settlement in North America, founded in 1607.
What is Jamestown?
The escaped slave turned abolitionist who helped hundreds of enslaved people escape through the underground railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This agreement entered Kansas as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What was the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
Event where a northern senator was beaten by a southern congressman with a cane.
What is the Caning of Senator Sumner?
Act that led to two states undecided on whether or not they were a slave state or a free state
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This act, passed in 1765, required colonists to provide housing to British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
The US Senator brutally beaten on the senate floor after speaking against slavery.
Who is Charles Sumner?
An invention by Eli Whitney that revolutionized cotton production in the South and increased slave demand.
What is the Cotton Gin?
Violent fights trying to switch Kansas to either a slave or free state known as ______.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
Acts that led up to California being declared as a free state and New Mexico and Utah areas were declared slave states.
The Compromise of 1850?
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War resulting in the U.S. gaining more territory.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
The US Supreme Court decision against him that ruled that slaves could not be US citizens
Who is Dred Scott?
This slave rebellion, led by a preacher, caused the deaths of over 60 white people and influenced stricter slave laws in the South.
What was Nat Turner’s rebellion?
Political party that started in 1833 and ended in 1856.
What is the Whig Party?
This act required that slaves be returned to their owners even if they were in a free state.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850?
The largest slave rebellion in South Carolina, which led to harsher slave laws regulating slavery.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
Abraham Lincoln reportedly called her "The little woman who started this big war" following the publication of her novel in the North.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
This novel created a moral shift in opinions about slavery in the North.
What was Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Financial crisis caused by the declining international economy and the over expansion of the domesticity of the economy.
What is the Panic of 1857?
This act led to reduced tariff rates by about 20%. The reduced tariff was on a widespread of goods, but largely on agricultural imports.
What is the Tariff of 1857?
The plan proposed at the Constitutional Convention that established a strong central government with a bicameral legislature, in which representation would be based on population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
An Illinois Senator who debated Abraham Lincoln and championed the idea of popular sovereignty in determining the status of slavery in new territories.
Who is Stephen A. Douglas?
The 15th president of the US who was pro slavery in the Dred Scott decision and sought to make Kansas a slave state.
Who was James Buchanan?
Late 1840's - mid 1850's event which led many settlers westward, and resulted in intense debates over slavery's expansion, and contributed to political tensions.
What is the California Gold Rush?
This policy would introduce the legislation that would reinstate the Missouri Compromise line, forbid abolition of slavery on federal land, and compensate slave owners for runaway slaves.
What are the Crittenden Amendments?