Vocabulary #1
Find or discover by investigation.
What is Trace?
To cancel.
What is Nullify?
The population of slaves increased in the South because of this invention.
What is the Cotton Gin?
POINT SWITCH #2
This cotton cleaning device was invented in 1794 by Eli Whitney.
What is the cotton gin?
This man was elected in 1860 as president of the Union.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This was the first battle of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
Estimate, measure, or note the similarity or dissimilarity between.
What is Compare?
DOUBLE POINTS
Officially withdrawing from the United States.
What is Secession?
Missouri would enter the Union as a slave state while Maine would enter as a free state after this famous Compromise.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This man led Nat Turner's Revolt in 1861.
Who is Nat Turner?
This person proposed the Compromise of 1850 in hopes that it would maintain peace between the North and South.
Who is Henry Clay?
This name is the first one mentioned in the Valley Forge section.
(Ch. 6, pg. 230)
Who is General Howe?
Give a brief statement of the main points of (something).
What is Summarize?
A war between citizens of the same country.
What is Civil War?
This state was the first state to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
DOUBLE POINTS
After the Tariff of 1832 was passed, this state quickly issued an "Ordinance of Nullification".
What is South Carolina?
This person wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
DOUBLE POINTS
This is the 50th word under the red Primary Source banner.
(Ch. 9, pg. 315)
What is Government?
Create or devise methodically (a strategy or a proposal).
What is Formulate?
A collection of weapons and equipment.
What is Arsenal?
This "Act", allowed former slaves to be captured and brought back to the South.
What is the "Fugitive Slave Act"?
This was after the Compromise of 1850, slavery was outlawed in this capital.
What is Washington D.C.?
This was a network of routes and people who helped slaves escape to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This family owned the house shown in the picture?
(Ch. 15, pg. 493)
Who is the Shirley family?
Form an idea of the amount, number, or value of; assess.
What is Evaluate?
A person who has escaped or is in hiding to avoid arrest in capture.
What is Fugitive?
DOUBLE POINTS
This "Act" led to the fighting called "Bleeding Kansas".
What is "Kansas-Nebraska Act"?
This famous case was deciding the freedom of a man who claimed he was free after visiting "free states" with his owner.
Who is Dred Scott?
In this compromise, California would enter as a free state.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This state was the most northern state to grow tobacco.
(Ch. 3, pg. 114)
What is Delaware?
POINT SWITCH #1
Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of (something, especially information) typically for purposes of explanation and interpretation.
What is Analyze?
An agreement of a dispute that is reached after both sides make some concessions.
What is Compromise?
This president passed the Tariff of 1832.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This man wanted to start a war against slavery by raiding an arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
Who is John Brown?
DOUBLE POINTS
After seceding, the Southern states elected this man as president of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This body of water is located between Old California and Mexico.
(Ch. 12, pg. 406)
What is Gulf of California?