Slavery was going to be brought up for debate again in this year.
What is 1808?
100
20% of the South owned slaves. 80% of the South supported slavery. This was an example of _______________.
What is “sectionalism?”
100
Texas became independent from Mexico in 1836. They joined the Union in this year.
What is 1845?
100
The first presidential candidate to come from the wig party.
Who was John C. Calhoun?
100
John Brown raided this ferry.
What is Harper Ferry's?
200
States received this many senators.
What is two senators?
200
South Carolina refused to pay tariffs on goods. Name Andrew Jackson’s response to this.
What is threatening to send troops to make them pay?
200
In 1848, the Untied States gained hundreds of square miles from Mexico. They received this land when they won this war.
What is the Mexican War?
200
Dred Scott's slave sued him for this reason.
What is he was a slave in a free state when his owner brought him North?
200
When Lincoln arrived in New York and he was known as this.
What is the "Railroad Lawyer?"
300
In the South, a slave was counted as this much of a person.
What is 3/5 of a person?
300
This man started the most famous of all slave revolts. Name the man and place it happened.
Who is Nat Turner in Harper's Ferry?
300
Henry Clay in 1850 made one final compromise to settle the problem of California joining the Union. The South and the North received this out of the deal.
What is the North received California as a free state and slave trade in D.C. would be banned and The South received popular sovereignty and the Fugitive State Law?
300
Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B., when presented with the Dred Scott v. Sandiford said this statement.
What is, “slaves were is inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect?”
300
This amount of candidates ran for President.
What is four candidates?
400
This object increased the need for slavery. Name the object and the creator.
What is the cotton gin and Eli Whitney?
400
In 1819 Missouri wanted to join the Union. They had to obey these three rules to join. Name two.
What is it would have to be a slave state and Maine would become a free state and any state south of 30’ 36” would be slave states?
400
This woman wrote Uncle Tom’s cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
400
The California gold fields caused a need for this.
What is raising tariffs on imported goods?
400
Lincoln won the Presidential Election by this much in a percentage.
What is 39%?
500
Congress thought after the importation of slaves was banned slavery would die down. Name the form it continued in.
What are local sources selling slaves to plantation owners?
500
Theodore Weld believed in this idea of how to free slaves.
What is gradual freeing of slaves?
500
This senator wanted a railroad to cross the Kansas and Nebraska territory.
Who was Senator Stephen A. Douglas?
500
Abe Lincoln ran against this man for a seat in senate and Presidency.