Compromises
This act required the federal government to find and return runaway slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This abolitionist was considered the conductor of the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This event was the forced removal of Native Americans from their homelands in to Oklahoma.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This system involved rewarding friends, family, and supporters with government jobs.
What is the spoils system?
This term was used to justify westward expansion into lands claimed by other nations.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This compromise had California send 1 pro-slavery senator to Congress and allowed Utah & New Mexico to use popular sovereignty.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This abolitionist started the anti-slavery newspaper The North Star.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This phrase describes fights that occured between proslavery and anti-slavery groups in Kansas.
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
This region was the most against high tariffs.
What is the South?
This was a major reason that slavery expanded in the South during the early 1800s.
What are new innovations or the cotton gin?
The Nebrasaka Territory separated into 2 states that used popular sovereignty and repealed the Missouri Compromise.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This abolitionist wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which exposed the reality of slavery to notherners.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
This rebellion involved the capture of the federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry in an attempt to encourage more anti-slavery rebellions in the South.
This act led to the Trail of Tears event with the Native Americans.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
The ruling in this Supreme Court case denied Congress the power to regulate slavery in territories.
What is Dred Scott?
The southern border of Missouri decided on the admission of new states as free or slave.
This group of people opposed the taking of new western territories because they feared the admission of new slave states.
Who are abolitionists?
This rebellion caused Virginia to pass stricter slave codes prohibiting them (slaves) from assembling in groups, being taught to read and write, and hiring out to other plantations.
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
John C. Calhoun argued that federal laws do not need to be followed within state borders if they are unconstitutional.
What is the South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification?
This duos expedition had goals of mapping out new territory, discovering a Northwest Passage, and documenting plants and animals.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
These compromises were all efforts to settle disputes over the spread of slavery to western territories.
What are the Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, and Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This anti-slavery newspaper was started by William Lloyd Garrison.
What is The Liberator?
This war resulted in the gaining of the Oregon Territory, the end of the Federalist Party, and the Star Spangled Banner becoming the national anthem.
What is the War of 1812?
Who are the federal and state governments?
This term means a devotion or committment to regional areas over the nation as a whole.
What is sectionalism?