What is the compromise that decided how many senators and representatives?
100
Define the Mexican War
What is the war that gave us most property of Texas?
100
Who is the author of Uncle Toms Cabin?
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
100
Define the keeping of people against their will that occurred in 1619 in America
What is slavery? :(
100
Define the republican party.
What is the party that was interested in giving farmers free land?
200
Define The panic of 1857?
What is a severe economic recession, aided by the sinking of the U.S.S.?
200
Define John Browns Raid?
What is the raid that got weapons for the anti-slavery cause?
200
The Dred Scott Surpreme Court Decision
What is the surpreme court decision that a slave almost won, but his owner won?
200
Who is Frederick Douglas?
Who is an escaped slave who became an abolitionist?
200
Define the Wilmot Proviso
What is the gain of millions of square miles and the attempt to get that territory we gained from The Mexican War to be a free state?
300
Define The Missouri Compromise
What is the compromise that let all the states north of the 36' 30" latitude would be free states and the ones south of it would be free states
300
Define nullification
What is something that gets rid of a law in a particular area?
300
Who is Nat Turner?
What is the person responsible for the revolt that happened in 1831?
300
Define the invention of the cotton gin
What is the invention that the north thought would save slaves but ended up giving the south more reasons to own them?
300
Define the Lincoln-Douglas Debates
What is the debate called in which two men fought for a senate seat in Illinois?
400
As soon as Abe got elected South Carolina declared itself to withdraw from the Union.
What is the election of 1860?
400
Define the a small war between pro-slavery and anti-slavery people?
What is Bleeding Kansas?
400
Define the 3/5 compromise
What is the act in which the south wanted more representation in congress and decided to make slaves 3/5 of a person?
400
What role did quakers play in the underground railroad?
What is the fact that they helped many slaves escape?
400
Define the Kansas-Nebraska act
What is the act in which an Illinois senator wanted to cross through Kansas and Nebraska with railroad in order to get to chicago
500
Define the compromise of 1850
What is the controversy that was started after gold in California was discovered?
500
Define the loyalty to ones own region or section of the country?
What is sectionalism?
500
Define the Liberator
What is the first anti-slavery newspaper? :)
500
Define the Abraham Lincoln's Speech at Cooper-Union College
What is the speech in which Lincoln presented his own research that proved that 21 of the 39 signers of the constitution had wanted slavery to stay where it was?
500
What happened in 1808?
What is the attempted banning of importation of slaves from Africa?