Missouri Compromise & Age of Jackson
Vocabulary
Texas & Mexico
Divisive Politics of Slavery
Bleeding Kansas and Other Things
100
The person who authored the Missouri Compromise?
Who is Henry Clay?
100
Movement of people to a place in which gold has been discovered
What is gold rush?
100
He was the first Vice President to become President.
Who is John Tyler?
100
He was the original author of the Compromise of 1850.
Who is Henry Clay?
100
This was the network of conductors and fugitives slaves that delivered many to freedom in the North.
What is the Underground Railroad?
200
This was the name of the agreement between Henry Clay and John Q. Adams to end the election of 1824.
What is the Corrupt Bargain?
200
Gift of public land to an individual or organization
What is land grant?
200
He was the person who selectively picked the members of his town in Texas. He became a leader for Texan Independence.
Who is Stephen Austin?
200
He was the Senator from Illinois who split the Compromise of 1850 into 5 individual bills.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
200
He was the abolitionist from Massachusetts who perpetrated the Pottawatomie Massacre.
Who is John Brown?
300
The latitude line used to establish a boundary for slavery in the Louisiana Purchase?
What is the 36'30"° line?
300
Treaty ending the War with Mexico
What is Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
300
This was a proposal that would have outlawed slavery in lands acquired from Mexico.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
300
Daily Double. Group decides how much money to wager (as much as you currently have). Only the group that selected this question may answer.
List four parts of the Compromise of 1850.
300
These were the two territories in the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase that would decide slavery through popular sovereignty.
What are Kansas and Nebraska?
400
This was the economic downturn that took place after the Second Bank of the United States was destroyed.
What is the Panic of 1837?
400
System in which incoming political parties throw out former government workers and replace them with their own friends
What is the spoil system?
400
Daily Double. Group decides how much money to wager (as much as you currently have). Only the group that selected this question may answer.
He was the Mexican leader who defeated the Texans at the Alamo.
400
These were the two territories that decided slavery based on popular sovereignty.
What are Utah and New Mexico Territories?
400
He was the Congressman from South Carolina that attacked Senator Charles Sumner on the Senate floor for his speech attacking slavery and his Uncle.
Who is Preston Brooks?
500
These two men served as Jackson's Vice President.
Who are Calhoun and Van Buren?
500
Idea that people living in a territory should make their own decisions, especially the decision to admit slavery
What is popular sovereignty?
500
Polk held these two high level positions in the federal government.
What are Speaker of the House and President of the United States?
500
This was the total dollar amount given to Texas to settle their border dispute with New Mexico Territory.
What is 10 million dollars?
500
These were the two capitals of Kansas - one housing a pro-slavery government, the other an anti-slavery government.
What are Lecompton and Topeka?
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