What is the invention that allowed cotton to be grown for large profit and led to the institutionalization of slavery in the South?
100
Jefferson bought a huge amount of land from France for 15 million dollars.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
100
The President whose election led the South to secede.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
Andrew Johnson
Who is the president who takes over after Lincoln was shot?
200
James Madison
Who is the Father of the Constitution?
200
1850
When was the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 passed?
200
James K. Polk's war in the 1840s that ended with more territory added to the United States.
What is the Mexican-American War?
200
A "turning point" battle of the Civil War, caused by soldiers looking for shoes
What is Gettysburg?
200
Laws that kept blacks in a state of "slavery" after the war.
What are black codes?
300
Anti-federalists
Who was the group who opposed the ratification of the Constitution?
300
Underground Railroad
What is the system of houses and abolitionists who would help slaves escape into Canada?
300
Harriet Beecher Stowe's abolitionist novel about the life of slaves.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
300
Fourscore and seven years ago.....
What is the Gettysburg Address?
300
Gave black Americans citizenship.
What is the 14th Amendment?
400
Great Compromise
What is the agreement between large and small states that decided representation in Congress?
400
popular sovereignty
What is the principle that was followed in the Kansas-Nebraska act that allowed people in the territories to decide upon the slavery question themselves?
400
Violence in the territories because of the popular sovereignty rule.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
400
Robert E. Lee
Who is the leading general of the Confederate Army?
400
A ten year period of time that saw Radical Republicans and the national government enforce changes in the South.
What is Reconstruction?
500
3/5 Compromise
What is the agreement between Northern and Southern states that decides how black people are counted in the federal government?
500
The edict that freed slaves in the Confederate states during the war?
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
500
The cause of tensions between North and South over the question of slavery moving into new territories.
What is westward expansion?
500
Railroads, larger population, more cash on hand
What are strengths of the North?
500
After Reconstruction, laws passed in the South that limited freedom and voting rights of black Americans.