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This is the year of the California Gold Rush.
What is 1848?
Term referrong to the vote on whether or not to allow slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
The first Republican President of the U.S.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
He was a former slave who became literate and a crucial part of the abolitionist movement.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
The belief in the divine mission of white Americans to conquer from "sea to shining sea."
What was Manifest Destiny?
This network of safehouses and passages helped slaves escape to the North.
What was the Underground Railroad?
He was known as the Great Compromiser
Who was Henry Clay?
This element of the Compromise of 1850 angered Northerners.
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
This novel galvanized abolitionists by depicting the cruelty of slavery.
What was Uncle Tom's Cabin?
The anti-slavery political party expanded on the tradition of Free Soilers.
What was the Republican Party?
This was the first state to secede from the Union.
He was a radical abolitionist known for his raid on Harper's Ferry.
Who was John Brown?
What was the Dred Scott Decision?
This shifted the focus of the Civil War to a conflict based on the eradication of Southern slavery.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
This invention exacerbated Southern economic dependence on a single cash crop.
What was the cotton gin?
He assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
The battle cry for the Texan independence movement.
This early 19th century movement led by writers and poets stressed one-ness with nature, individualism, and self-reliance.
What was Transcendentalism?
He conceptualized the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.
Who was Stephen Douglas?
The first Southern attack of the Civil War was launched upon this location.
What was Ft. Sumter?
Who was Nat Turner?
This declaration told Europe that the Americas were now off-limits according to the U.S.
What was the Monroe Doctrine?
This failed proposal suggested no slavery in all the lands acquired from the Mexican-American War.
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
In this event, South Carolina threatened to secede over the Tariff of Abominations.
What was the Nullification Crisis?
This Union general led a "march to the sea," hoping to destroy the Southern will to fight.
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Who was William T. Sherman?
Robert E. Lee signed his surrender to Ulysses S. Grant at this location.
What was Appomatox Court House?
This agreement ended the Mexican-American War.
What was the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
This economic crisis was spurred by Jackson's veto of the National Bank.
What was the Panic of 1837?
This was an economic factory system in Massachusetts that depended on the labor of young single women.
What was the Lowell System?
These two women set up the Seneca Falls Convention.
Who were Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton?