This agreement set the line for slavery at the 36' 30 parallel in 1820. Above was free and below was slave.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
100
Was the first battle of the Civil War?
What is Fort Sumter?
100
Systems of laws passed in the south in order to keep society as close to slavery times as possible.
What is black codes?
100
Invention that led to unintentional expansion of slavery.
What is the cotton gin?
200
Took over an arsenal in Harper's Ferry Virginia. Was eventually hanged for treason for this crime.
What is John Brown?
200
Kansas and Nebraska Act stated that the issue of slavery would be decided by...
What is popular sovereignty?
200
Was a major turning point for the North and one of the bloodiest battles in U.S. History.
What is Gettysburg?
200
Group that constructed their own reconstruction plan and clashed with Andrew Johnson.
What is Radical Republicans?
200
Where the Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves.
What is the Confederacy?
300
Wrote the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin that illustrated the various atrocities of slavery. This novel was a reaction to the Fugitive Slave Act.
What is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
300
Aspect of Compromise of 1850 stated that runaway slaves would be returned to their masters.
What is Fugitive Slave Act?
300
This battle gave Union control to the Mississippi River.
What is Vicksburg?
300
Main purpose of 13th amendment.
What is abolishment of slavery?
300
Attempt to prevent slavery from entering any of the territories acquired in the Mexican-American war.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
400
Won election of 1836 and became eighth President of United States. Was one of the founders of the Democratic Party.
What is Martin Van Buren?
400
This treaty ended the Mexican-American war.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
400
Where Robert E. Lee surrendered.
What is Appomattox Court House, Virginia?
400
Officially ended Reconstruction Era.
What is Compromise of 1877?
400
Loyalty to a particular region.
What is sectionalism?
500
President Jackson attacked this group of people in Florida under the authorization of the Monroe Doctrine.
What is the Seminole?
500
The North and the South could never come to an agreement on this issue and was one of the main reasons why the Civil War was fought.
What is slavery?
500
The length of time the Civil War was fought.
What is four years?
500
Main purpose of 14th amendment.
What is citizenship?
500
Senator from Illinois who ran for President against Abraham Lincoln. Was a strong supporter of popular sovereignty and helped write the Kansas-Nebraska Act.