Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Rumblings of War
Slavery in Territory
Manifest Destiny
100
Entered as Free State
What is Maine?
100
This state entered Free
What is California?
100
The term for the bloody battles in Kansas over popular sovereignty
What is Bleeding Kansas?
100
This party wanted to prevent the expansion of slavery out west and was the precursor to the Republican Party
What is the Free Soil Party?
100
This was the part of the country where everyone look towards to move for a better life
What is the West?
200
Entered as Slave State
What is Missouri?
200
This was the war where we won all of these lands dealt with by the Compromise of 1850
What is Mexican-American War?
200
The place where the Civil War started, located in Charleston Harbor
What is Fort Sumter?
200
This law was canceled by the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
200
Nickname for the people who rushed to California to search for gold
Who are the 49ers?
300
This prohibited slavery in the regions north of southern Missouri, except for Missouri itself
What is The Line, 36-30 Latitude?
300
The great southern orator who defended slavery and did not want to compromise
Who is John C. Calhoun?
300
The crazy abolitionist who tried to lead an army of slaves throughout the south because God told him so
Who is John Brown?
300
The reason Dred Scott gave to the court when he sued for his freedom
What is he had lived in a free territory, thus he should be free?
300
He was the general sent by Polk to cross the Nueces River, which effectively started the Mexican-American War
Who is Zachary Taylor?
400
This Kentuckian passed through Congress the Missouri Compromise
Who is Henry Clay?
400
This body of government becomes unbalanced after the Compromise of 1850
What is the Senate?
400
The political party who split over the issue of slavery in 1860. They had a northern and a southern candidate.
What is the Democratic Party?
400
The state that entered due to the Compromise of 1850
What is California?
400
They moved from Nauvoo to Salt Lake City
What are the Mormons?
500
This was the land bought from France which was effected by the Missouri Compromise
What is Louisiana Purchase?
500
These are the two territories which entered under the Compromise of 1850
What are Utah and New Mexico?
500
The first state to secede from the Union
What is South Carolina?
500
A failed law which would have banned slavery from all lands gained due to Mexican-American War
What is Wilmot Proviso?
500
These are the three roots of Manifest Destiny
What is Nationalistic, Religious, Racist?
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