Compromises
People
Causes of the Civil War
Vast Vocab
MISC X2
100

How did the Missouri Compromise impact Missouri and Maine?

Missouri becomes a slave state, Maine becomes a free state.

100

Name of the slave who tried to sue for his freedom after moving to a Northern State with his master

Dred Scott

100
What is the significance of Scott v. Sanford?
Makes popular sovereignty and Missouri Compromise of 1820 unconstitutional, makes slavery legal.
100

This term refers to the division into different regions of the United States and is a major cause of the Civil War.

What is sectionalism?

100
What was the belief that America had the God given right to expand to the Pacific Ocean? 

Manifest Destiny 

200
What state becomes a free state as a result of the Compromise of 1850?
California
200
Which president is elected in 1860?
Abraham Lincoln
200
What was the political significance of the Kansas-Nebraska act?
Proved popular sovereignty is a failure and the division between the North and South.
200
This term refers to a person who dies for their beliefs. It's often how John Brown was described by Northern media.

What is a martyr?

200

Which was the first state to secede after Lincoln's election? 

South Carolina 

300
What is the geographic impact of the Missouri Compromise?
Created the line 36"30', separating slave from free states.
300
Who was John Brown?
Famous white abolitionist, decided to fight slavery with a violent slave rebellion.
300
How did the South and North feel about John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry?
The South believed he was a terrorist while the North viewed him as a martyr.
300

This concept allows for rule by the people, when the population is able to determine a political issue through a popular vote.

What is popular sovereignty?

300

Which river did people settle near in Texas? 

Rio Grande

400

What act repealed the Missouri Compromise and created Popular Sovereignty for deciding if a state is free or slave? 

Kansas-Nebraska Act

400
Which president promoted manifest destiny by annexing Texas and Oregon?
James Polk
400
How did the presidential election of 1860 impact the United States?
South Carolina votes to secede from the US and other states follow.
400

This term is appropriate to describe the south after they withdrew formally from membership of the federal union.

What is secede?

400

Who owned the Oregon Territory before James Polk was president? 

Great Britain 

500

What are 3 Provisions of the Compromise of 1850?

Fugitive Slave Act, California admitted Free, No slave trade in DC, and New Mexico's Borders created

500
Which politician proposed that the land gained from the Mexican-American war should be free states?
David Wilmont
500
What four events led to the Civil War?
Kansas-Nebraska Act, Scott v. Sanford, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, and the Election of 1860.
500

This treaty ended the Mexican-American War and granted the Mexican cession to the US.

What is the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

500

When pro & anti slave believers moved into Kansas to sway the vote, what event occurred between the two groups? 

Bleeding Kansas

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