Reforms
What was the largest reform movement of Antebellum America?
Temperance
List the three main elements of the Compromise of 1850.
Harsher fugitive slave act, CA a free state, popular sovereignty in NM and UT Territories.
How many vetoes did Andrew Jackson use?
12.
Which politician demanded to know the “spot” on which Mexicans shed American blood in 1846?
Abraham Lincoln.
What two political seats did Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas race against each other for?
IL Senate seat and POTUS
List the names of three abolitionists in the 1850s.
(Many correct answers)
What territory had Dred Scott visited that, he said, gave him the right to be free?
Wisconsin.
What did John C. Calhoun and other South Carolinians call the Tariff of 1828?
The Tariff of Abominations.
When John Brown raided Harper’s Ferry, what state was it in? What state is it in now?
Virginia then, West Virginia now.
Where did Alexander Stephens give the Cornerstone Speech?
At what is now the Savannah Theater.
What drastic change to voting did the attendees of the Seneca Falls Convention (1848) propose?
Women’s suffrage.
Who was the author of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Stephen Douglas.
Which political party did Martin Van Buren create?
The Democratic Party.
How did President Jackson respond to the threat of nullification?
He threatened to send troops to collect the tax.
In the 1840s, roughly what percent of free blacks in the north could vote on equal terms with whites?
Roughly 6%.
Who published The Liberator?
William Lloyd Garrison.
On whose fort was California gold discovered?
Sutter’s Fort.
What SCOTUS ruling held that the state of Georgia had no authority over Cherokee land?
Worcester v. Georgia.
In what winter were the Cherokee forced to walk the “Trail of Tears”?
1838-1839.
List five elements of John Gast’s painting, “American Progress.”
(Many correct answers)
Dorothea Dix advocated for major reforms to these not-quite-prisons, where inmates were often mistreated.
Insane asylums.
What was the rally cry for Americans who wanted western Canadian land up to the southern tip of Alaska?
54’40 or Fight!
Which Cherokee quasi-leader signed the Treaty of New Echota?
Roughly how many slaves did Harriet Tubman help free?
About 70.
List five states gained in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
CA, AZ, NM, NV, UT