Slavery & Abolition
This abolitionist published The Liberator and demanded immediate emancipation.
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
This belief claimed the United States was destined to expand across North America.
What was Manifest Destiny?
This proposal attempted to ban slavery in territory gained from Mexico.
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
This movement inspired reforms such as abolition, temperance, women’s rights, and public education.
What was the Second Great Awakening?
This political movement opposed immigrants and Catholic influence in the United States.
What was the Know-Nothing Party?
This former enslaved person argued slavery should end through political action and constitutional change.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
This line settled the Oregon boundary dispute between Britain and the United States.
What was the 49th parallel?
This idea allowed settlers in territories to decide whether slavery would exist there.
What was popular sovereignty?
This 1848 convention produced the Declaration of Sentiments.
What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
This panic increased sectional tensions after economic decline and falling land values.
What was the Panic of 1857?
This secret network helped enslaved people escape to freedom, with leaders like Harriet Tubman.
What was the Underground Railroad?
These were the major causes of the Mexican-American War.
What were the annexation of Texas, border disputes, and Manifest Destiny?
This act reopened conflict over slavery by allowing popular sovereignty in western territories.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This reformer worked to improve conditions for the mentally ill and prisoners.
Who was Dorothea Dix?
This president supported the Walker Tariff because he favored lower tariffs and freer trade.
Who was James K. Polk?
This invention greatly expanded cotton production and slavery in the South after 1793.
What was the cotton gin?
This treaty ended the Mexican War and gave the U.S. the Mexican Cession.
What was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This violent conflict erupted in Kansas between proslavery and antislavery settlers.
What was “Bleeding Kansas”?
This philosophy emphasized nature, individualism, and self-reliance.
What was Transcendentalism?
This southern politician argued slavery was a “positive good” and defended states’ rights.
Who was John C. Calhoun?
This Supreme Court case ruled that African Americans were not citizens and Congress could not ban slavery in territories.
What was Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This event caused rapid western migration and sped up California’s admission as a state.
What was the California Gold Rush?
This compromise admitted California as a free state while strengthening the Fugitive Slave Act.
(DOUBLE POINTS) What was the Compromise of 1850?
This dictionary helped create a distinct American identity through standardized English.
What was An American Dictionary of the English Language?
This representative attacked Senator Charles Sumner with a cane after an antislavery speech.
Who was Preston Brooks?