Slavery
Compromises/ More Slavery
State's Rights
Other Conflicts
People
100
The attempt to ban all slavery in the United States
What is abolitionism?
100
Abraham Lincoln made a speech here in 1859 that left him a well-known Republican ready to run for president.
Where was Cooper-Union College, New York?
100
His invention helped revolutionize the picking of cotton and led to needing more slave labor. He invented the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
200
In this year, the election between Abraham Lincoln, John Bell, Stephan Douglas, and John Breckinridge left Lincoln president with 39% of the votes.
What is the election of 1860?
200
This compromise determined the number of Senators and Representatives that each state could have in Congress. This compromise gave the small states the states' rights they were looking for.
What is the Connecticut Compromise?
200
RANDOM QUESTION! SURPRISE! This man was the leader of the Constitutional Convention and our first president. (Get this right!)
Who is George Washington?
300
This compromise gave the South another bonus when slaves were counted as 3/5 of a person which gave them an advantage as to the Southern population.
What is the "3/5 Compromise"?
300
After Texas was admitted into the Union in 1845, fighting broke out in 1846 over where the actual border between Texas and Mexico was located.
What is the Mexican American War?
300
The man who led the most successful slave revolt in history, he led a rampage in August of 1831 that killed over sixty whites in and around his plantation.
Who is Nat Turner?
400
This action went into effect in 1808, and the North hoped that it would end slavery. Unfortunately, it just began more slave trading within the US.
What is banning the importation of slaves from Africa?
400
After the gold rush to California, there were so many people in this state, that California petitioned for statehood. But the question was that whether it should be a free or slave state? California wanted to enter as a free state but but it was below the 36' 30" line that Henry Clay had set as part of the Missouri Compromise. To avoid conflict, Henry Clay made another compromise that granted two major concessions to the North and the South.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
400
John C. Calhoun argued that any law passed by the U.S. Congress, that a state government didn't like could be ignored by that state.
What is nullification?
400
THIS IS ANOTHER RANDOM QUESTION!!!! (I know you're excited...) So, in 1803, Thomas Jefferson sent his two friends on an expedition with a whole lot of other people (including a Native American woman and a slave) to explore...the West! What was this expedition called?
What is the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
400
The person who developed the Missouri Compromise accepted in 1820 that allowed Missouri to be a slave state, Maine to be a free state, and set the boundary for slave and free states admitted to the Union.
Who is Henry Clay?
500
Senator Steven A. Douglas wanted to build a railroad across Kansas and Nebraska territories. He decided to let the people choose whether Kansas and Nebraska would be free or slave states.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska act?
500
Defined as "a loyalty to one's own region or section of the country." For example, the South hated how the North was making them pay more for goods Northerners could purchase cheaply. Vice-President John C. Calhoun argued that "states' rights" meant the states, not the Federal government should have control of tariffs.
What is sectionalism?
500
Congressman David Wilmot from Pennsylvania thought that slavery should be limited to where it originated, in the South on the east coast. He tried to stop slavery from spreading into the new lands the U.S. had gained from Mexico. This law was never passed. The Southerners opposed it.
What is the "Wilmot Proviso"?
500
The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
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