We Can Work it Out
This law against runaway slaves was a part of the Compromise of 1850.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
The term ascribed to the God Given right for America to expand Westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This Amendment formally banned slavery from the United States Constitution.
What is the Thirteenth?
This address, delivered by Abraham Lincoln, alluded to the emancipation proclamation, claiming that "all men are created equal."
What is the Gettysburg Address?
The election of this President in 1860 led to the secession of the confederacy.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
President Taylor banned the slave trade and admitted California to the Union as a free state as a part of this compromise.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This form of transportation exploded in the mid 1800s, and was the most common form of travel across the country.
What is the railroad?
Many Black Americans were pushed back into former slaveowners hand with this economic, agricultural practice.
What is Sharecropping?
Who is William Sherman?
The most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad was this woman.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Stephen Douglas proposed a bill regarding these two states in 1854, allowing the citizens of both states to determine the status of slavery by vote.
What is Kansas and Nebraska?
These two precious metals were found out west, sparking a massive wave of migration.
What is gold and silver?
These methods were utilized to prevent Black Americans from voting (name at least two).
What are literacy tests, poll taxes, and domestic terrorism?
Border conflicts over this major river led to the outbreak of the Mexican-American War.
What is the Rio Grande River?
This influential book, published by Harriet Beecher Stowe, criticized the institution of slavery and highlighted its brutality.
What is Uncle Toms Cabin?
This Compromise signified the end to the Reconstruction Era
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This ideology led to hostility against German and Irish immigrants in the mid 1800s.
What is nativism?
This federal organization was tasked with providing welfare to Black Americans (and White Americans affected by the Civil War).
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This writ, allowing citizens to be brought before a judge before being persecuted for a crime, was suspended during the Civil War.
What is Habeas Corpus?
This controversial 1857 Supreme Court case argued that Black Americans had no right to sue and that Slaves were considered a form property, and therefor banning slavery was unconsitutional.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This proposal that slavery should be banned in any newly acquired Mexican territory was defeated twice in the Senate.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
The term given to the first fur traders to open up the far west in the 1820s.
What are Mountain Men?
These regional laws prohibited Black Americans from purchasing land or testifying against White Americans in court.
What are Black Codes?
This treaty allowed the United States to take possession of former Mexican territory (California and New Mexico), also known as the Mexican Cession.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This party was formed after the Mexican-American War and had the slogan "free soil, free labor, and free men."
What is the Free-Soil Party?