The Final
Counts as
10% of
Your second
semester grade
100
This term means “a setting free.” It’s an antonym for restraint or enslavement.
What is emancipation
100
What was Henry Clay’s primary purpose in offering the Compromise of 1850?
What is to avoid a civil war over the issue of slavery
100
Within the United States, conflicts over what delayed the annexation of Texas?
What is the balance of free and slave states
100
This former slave was captured, tried, convicted, and hanged for his part in a slave rebellion.
What is Nat Turner
100
As the publisher of The Liberator, this man was one of the first white Americans to demand the immediate freeing of slaves.
What is William Lloyd Garrison
200
This term usually used specifically to mean “before the American Civil War.”
What is Antebellum
200
This prevented congressional discussion of antislavery petitions between 1836 and 1844.
What is The Gag rule
200
Who was the escaped slave who remained in the South because he felt that he was called by God to organize his fellow slaves in a fight for freedom?
Who is Nat Turner
200
In general, this term means “a complete doing away with,” which is how it came to be the name of the movement to outlaw slavery.
What is Abolition
200
Who was the free African American took the extreme position of encouraging slaves to fight for freedom?
What is David Walker
300
What law established popular sovereignty for Kansas and Nebraska?
What is The Kansas-Nebraska Act?
300
Southerners argued that they had a right to slaves in the new territories, because slaves were property—and property was protected by what?
What is The Constitution.
300
In 1833, Stephen Austin went to Mexico City to present petitions for more what for Texas?
What is Self government
300
What established the final borders of the lower 48 states?
What is Gadsden Purchase?
300
What caused tensions between the U.S. and Mexico in 1845?
What is The Annexation of Texas
400
Under Mexican rule, the main appeal Texas held for American settlers was what?
What is cheap land
400
In 1835, what began when Texans sought independence from Mexico?.
What is The Texas Revolution
400
This former slave at first joined forces with William Lloyd Garrison, but he later broke with Garrison over the issue of violence?
What is Fredrick Douglas
400
Why did President Polk want a war with Mexico?
What is He wanted to gain more territory for the U.S.
400
Why were threats of secession feared?
What is People believed that they could result in the break-up of the Union
500
California, Arizona, and New Mexico became part of the U.S. as a result of what treaty?
What is The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
500
The Wilmot Proviso proposed that slavery should be banned from where?
What is All of the territories won from Mexico.
500
According to the idea of popular sovereignty, who decide whether slavery would be allowed in a territory?
What is the residents of the territory
500
These law were used in many Northern states to counter the Fugitive Slave Act
What is personal liberty laws
500
Why did many Northerners oppose the war with Mexico?
What is they felt slavery would be introduced in lands gained from Mexico
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