The earliest known use of the term Manifest Destiny was by
Who is John L. Sullivan
100
What Abolitionists gained fame by helping slaves to escape to Canada?
Who is HARRIET TUBMAN
100
Uncle Tom's Cabin intended to show the cruelty of slavery. Who wrote the book?
Who is HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
100
In 1861, many Northerners were willing to allow Southern states to leave the Union until they attacked what fort?
What is FORT SUMTER
100
When no candidate received a majority of the vote in the Electoral College during the 1824 election what group decided its outcome?
What is THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
200
The first Old World Europeans to come to California were from what country?
What is SPAIN
200
An informal network of homes where slaves could hide on their escape to freedom was known as the ________
What is the UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
200
In 1857, the Supreme Court ruled that protection of slavery was guaranteed in all the territories of the West. What individual brought this case up?
Who is DRED SCOTT
200
Lincoln used legally dubious methods to keep what group of states in the Union?
What are the BORDER STATES
200
All told, only about ____ % of white southerners owned slaves or belonged to a slave-holding family?
What is 25%
300
Slavery would be banned from all territories that Mexico ceded to the United States under what legislation introduced during the Mexican War?
What is the WILMOT PROVISO
300
For a short time in the 1850s, William Walker, an American adventurer, seized control of what country?
What is NICARAGUA
300
What compromise did Abraham Lincoln oppose because he had been elected on a platform that opposed the extension of slavery?
What is the CRITTENDEN COMPROMISE
300
The Confederacy's most effective commerce-raider was what ship?
What is the CSA ALABAMA
300
As their main crop, southern subsistence farmers raised______
What is CORN
400
The rich soil of the Willamette River Valley brought settlers to what area in the West?
What is the OREGON COUNTRY
400
Congress determined that slavery in the New Mexico and Utah territories was to be determined by Popular Sovereignty under what governmental action?
What is the COMPROMISE OF 1850.
400
What president's decision on Kansas's Lecompton Constitution hopelessly divided the Democratic party?
Who is JAMES BUCHANAN
400
The Trent affair, involving the removal of Southern diplomats from what country's ship?
What is GREAT BRITAIN
400
The aggressive exploitation of the West's bounty is known as:
What is Ecological imperialism
500
A small-scale clash between lumberjacks in Maine and Canada was known as:
What is the AROOSTOOK WAR
500
Who's "Seventh of March Speech" called for a new, more stringent fugitive-slave law?
Who is DANIEL WEBSTER
500
Slavery would stay down if the people voted it down no matter what the Supreme Court said according to what individual as shown in his "Freeport Doctrine?"
Who is STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS
500
To fill the army's demand for troops, prior to 1863, the North relied mainly on ________
What were VOLUNTEERS
500
What TWO countries worked to prevent America from exercising effective control over about half of its total territory?