Constitution
The authors of the Constitution established this to limit the impact of common people on the selection of President.
What is the Electoral College?
This 1854 law allowed territories to decide the issue of slavery through popular sovereignty.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This 1862 act granted 160 acres of public land to settlers willing to farm it for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
Congress outlawed this commercial activity in 1808.
What is the international slave trade?
The Missouri Compromise admitted this state as a free state.
What is Maine?
This member of the government serves a six year term.
He hoped to spark a mass uprising of enslaved people in the South by taking control of a federal armory at Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
Who was John Brown?
This speech, which began with "fourscore and seven years ago," marked a turning point in the meaning of the Civil War.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
As slavery spread to the deep South and to the West, many families were split up as a result of this.
What was the Second Middle Passage?
Outraged by his loss, Andrew Jackson described the Presidential election of 1824 using this phrase.
What is the "corrupt bargain"?
The Three-Fifths Compromise primarily benefited this group in Congress.
Who/what are Southern representatives/Southern states?
The Free Soilers were eventually absorbed into this new political party.
What was the Republican party?
This declaration by Lincoln in January of 1863 was designed to strengthen the Union Army.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
He was executed, along with 56 other enslaved persons, after leading a failed rebellion in 1830.
Who was Nat Turner?
The Naturalization Act of 1790 stated that immigrants could become citizens only if they belonged to this group.
Who/what are "Free white persons?"
What is Three-Fourths of the States?
The Representative from Illinois, Abraham Lincoln, introduced the "spot resolution" to highlight questions about where this conflict actually began.
What was the Mexican-American war?
This 1862 battle in Maryland was the bloodiest single-day conflict in American history.
What is the battle of Antietam?
Enslaved person created this style of music, which later became a staple part of the Black Church and part of American popular music.
What are spirituals?
Who were the Cherokee people?
Only this part of government can propose tax laws.
What is the U.S. House of Representatives?
He presided over a Supreme Court decision that declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional.
Who was Roger B. Taney?
During the Civil War, this term referred to escaped enslaved people who sought refuge with Union forces.
What is contraband?
She hid for seven years in her grandmothers attic while eluding capture by her enslavers.
Who was Harriet Jacobs?
This poet caught the attention of Thomas Jefferson and challenged his ideas about white supremacy.
Who was Phyllis Wheatley?