Who did the United States fight during the War of 1812?
The British
100
What do we call a slave who left their plantation to head North?
runaway slave
100
This law allowed Andrew Jackson to take Native Americans off of their land and caused the Trail of Tears.
The Indian Removal Act of 1830.
100
Define "abolitionist."
A person who fought to end slavery.
100
Define secession.
Withdrawing from the Union.
200
This compromise constitutionally allowed slaves to be counted as 3/5ths of a person during the census.
The 3/5ths Compromise
200
Free Blacks carried these around to prove that they were free.
Free papers.
200
This line on a map divided the Free states from the Slaveholding states.
The Mason-Dixon Line
200
This law required federal officials to report runaway slaves, or face a fine.
The Fugitive Slave Law
200
Describe one outcome of the Compromise of 1850.
1) California added as a free state; Utah and Nevada vote on deciding slavery
2) Fugitive Slave Act
3) Slave trade was banned in Washington D.C.
300
He was the first casualty of the American Revolution. He died during the Boston Massacre.
Crispus Attucks
300
A child was classified free or enslaved based on the status of their ________.
Mother
300
Describe "manifest destiny."
The belief under God that the United States should expand across the continent (from sea to sea).
300
Name a book that inspired abolitionism.
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe; 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
300
What was Lincoln's belief that America's race problem could be solved by sending all Blacks back to Africa?
colonization
400
Why did the British promise slaves freedom during the American Revolution and the War of 1812?
The British promised freedom so the slaves would join the British armies.
400
This society was a major player in during the Yellow Fever Outbreak of 1793.
Free African Society
400
The western land purchased by Thomas Jefferson was known as?
The Louisiana Purchase
400
Name 3 abolitionists.
William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglas, Sojourner Truth, David Walker, Harriet Tubman
400
Describe three direct outcomes from the Emancipation Proclamation.
1) Goal of the Military and Federal Government is now to free the slaves
2) All slaves in the Confederacy are free
3) Blacks could join the military
4) Lincoln asked slaves to refrain from violence and keep working
500
What group wrote the Declaration of Independence and what were they asking for?
White Slaveholding Men; They were asking for Liberty and Freedom
500
Describe two ways a slave was able to get their freedom.
1) Granted freedom from their master
2) Purchase your freedom
3) Run away and go to the North
500
Name the two major groups of people that were already living in the American West.
French furtrappers and Native Americans.
500
This court case angered abolitionists when the judge ruled that slaves could not make claims in courts because they were property, not citizens.
Dred Scott v. Sandford.
500
Describe three events that led to the Civil War.
1) Acquiring land from the Mexican-American War
2) "Bleeding Kansas"
3) Compromise of 1850
4) Lincoln winning the Presidency