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100
By 1650, this was allowed in Virginia and in other areas
What is slavery?
100
A greater loyalty to one's own region or state than one's own country
What is sectionalism?
100
This 1846 war gained thousands of square miles of land for the U.S. and was a training ground for most of the high ranking officers on both sides during The American Civil War 1861-1865.
What is The Mexican War?
100
This was the massive migration of people west in response to a discovery of a precious metal in 1848
What is The California Gold Rush
100
Name of the slave who sued his master for his freedom after he had been taken to the North and now claimed he was free
Who was Dred Scott?
200
The meeting that created an amazing template for governance but failed to settle the issue of slavery.
What is The Constitutional Convention of 1787?
200
Angry at trade tariffs that would make imported goods more expensive, South Carolina threatened not to pay or even leave the union in 1832.
What is The Nullification Crisis?
200
The name of the treaty that ceded land in what is now the southwestern U.S. for fifteen million dollars.
What is The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
200
The "God Given" right to own land from "sea to shining sea"
What is Manifest Destiny?
200
The name of the 1857 decision saying slaves were not citizens and there could be slavery anywhere if the people of a state wanted it.
What is Dred Scott V. Sandiford?
300
The 1793 invention that increased the need for slaves in the south
What is The Cotton Gin?
300
Killing over 60 whites on Virginia farms in 1831, this rebellion awakened the worst fears of White slave holders and led to a crackdown on the lives of slaves in the South.
What is The Nat Turner Rebellion?
300
The 1848 attempt to pass a law through congress banning slavery in any land won from Mexico
What is The Wilmot Proviso?
300
The Maine-born woman who wrote a searing best-seller on the evils of slavery. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" caused outrage in both North and South
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
300
Two Illinois politicians battled it out for the U.S. Senate seat from Illinois in 1858. Their "discussions" on the issues facing the country, especially slavery, are legend.
What were The Lincoln-Douglas Debates?
400
The year Congress banned the importation of slaves from Africa into The United States
What is 1808?
400
The movement, for political, moral or religious reasons, to get rid of slavery in The United States.
What is The Abolitionist movement or Abolitionism?
400
Who was known as "The Great Compromiser" for his attempts to find solutions to the problems of slavery and land?
Who was Henry Clay?
400
This law traded the rights to build a railroad west from Chicago in exchange for Kansas and Nebraska being able to decide slavery by popular sovereignty
What is The Kansas-Nebraska Act?
400
October, 1859; a radical member of a cause trying to end slavery attacked the arsenal at Harper's Ferry, VA. He and his friends failed but many northerners cheered his efforts and many southerners continued to lose faith in remaining in the United States
What is John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry?
500
Maine entered the Union as a free state in 1820. Missouri entered as a slave state. In addition, no slavery was to be allowed north of 36' 30" N. latitude.
What is The Missouri Compromise?
500
He was an escaped slave who became a great speaker against slavery, a newspaper owner, solicitor general of D.C. and adviser to President Abe Lincoln. She was a former New York slave who spoke for both the ending of slavery and increased rights for all women.
Who were: Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth?
500
California entered as a free state; no more slave selling in Washington D.C. a strong fugitive slave law, Utah and New Mexico territories could vote on slavery by popular sovereignty
What is The Compromise of 1850?
500
This organization was formed in 1854 out of several political movements. Their platform included free land for settlers and an anti-slavery stance.
What is The Republican Party?
500
He won the presidency with only 39.7% of the vote in 1860. His election caused a southern state to react in a radical way. Name the state and the action of that state in December, 1860
What is South Carolina and secession?
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