Antebellum Reforms
Compromises
Manifest Destiny
Definitions
Sectionalism
100
The 19th century event which supported women's rights.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
100
The chronological order of the 3 compromises.
What is the Missouri Compromise (1820), The Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)?
100
The President most closely associated with Manifest Destiny in Texas, California, and Oregon.
Who is James K Polk?
100
The People should decide all political questions
What is Popular Sovereignty?
100
The most important cause of the differing economic systems.
What is climate and topography?
200
The people who supported the activities of the underground railroad.
Who are the abolitionists?
200
Provided for Popular Sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
200
The Reason Texas wasn't annexed
What is slavery?
200
The doctrine that said a state could object to a law of Congress if it felt Congress had abused its authority
What is Nullification?
200
To encourage American manufacturing
What is the purpose of a protective tariff?
300
Reading this intensified Northern dislike of slavery
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe?
300
Allowed California to enter the Union as a free state, created a stricter fugitive slave law, and outlawed the slave trade in Washington,D.C.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
300
Allowed farmers to ship grain more easily to eastern cities in 1825.
What is the Erie Canal?
300
Ended the Mexican-American War
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
300
Arguments southerners used in defense of slavery
What is the Constitution, the Bible, and racism?
400
Allowed for more people to vote for Andrew Jackson
What is the end of property qualifications for voting (universal manhood suffrage)?
400
Kept the balance in the Senate between slave and free states.
What is the Missouri Compromise (1820)?
400
The motto for the Oregon Territory.
What is "54' 40" or fight"?
400
It attempted to prevent European intervention in Latin America
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
400
It did not fit the economic interests of the region
Why did slavery die out in the north?
500
To start a slave rebellion in Virginia
What is the reason John Brown attacked Harper's Ferry?
500
The effect of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
500
1853
What is the year of the Gadsden Purchase?
500
Attempted to ban the spread of slavery into the Mexican Cession
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
500
Slaves were not citizens and Congress could not forbid slavery in the territories
What is the Court's holding in Scoot v. Sandford?
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