Mississippi and this other state had more slaves than whites by 1840.
What is South Carolina?
100
Religion founded by Joseph Smith in 1830, laid claim to an American extension of the Bible
What is Mormonism?
100
Concept that gaining control of all of North America was the United States' God given right, inspiration for westward expansion.
What is Manifest Destiny?
100
This state will be added as a free state in 1850, amid great debate, and not without great compromise.
What is California?
200
The South's "Peculiar Institution"
What is slavery?
200
Around 250,000 of these existed throughout the South before the Civil War, mostly in and around cities.
What are Free Blacks?
200
This movement advocated social reform through the limitation of alcoholic consumption
What is the Temperance Movement?
200
Final battle of the 1836 Texas Revolution; Texan victory forced Mexicans to surrender, albeit under uncertain terms.
What is the Battle of San Jacinto?
200
This 1854 act determined that two new states would be formed by 1860, and that the slavery question of each would be determined via popular sovereignty.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
300
Laws that restricted a slave's movement in towns and cities, who slaves could congregate with, and ability to purchase one's freedom.
What are Slave Codes?
300
1831 slave revolt in Virginia, led by a minister, which killed over 60 whites in a matter of hours
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
300
These were seen as places to reform criminals back into being productive members of society.
What are prisons?
300
The most famous of the Overland Trails west, connected Missouri to the Columbia and Willamette River valleys.
What is the Oregon Trail?
300
Conflict which witnessed "Border Ruffians" flood the borderlands area from Missouri in order to influence an 1856 election regarding slavery.
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
400
Another name for the top 2% of the Southern aristocracy
What is the Planter Class?
400
An intentionally lazy pattern of behavior employed by slaves to have expectations regarding their output lowered
What is Sambo?
400
The editor of the abolitionist newspaper the Liberator, outspoken critic of slavery.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
400
Failed act that demanded that no land acquired by war with Mexico could have slavery on it.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
400
His raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859 surprisingly created his own martyr status following his trial and execution.
Who is John Brown?
500
Managerial position on a plantation; usually ensured that the owner's slaves were productive.
What is the Overseer?
500
Secret network for aiding fugitive slaves
What is the Underground Railroad?
500
Harriet Beecher Stowe's eye-opening novel regarding slavery in the South, sold 2,000,000 copies within its first decade of publication.
What is "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
500
Nickname for those who rushed to California looking for gold
What are Forty-Niners?
500
This political party, formed in 1854, was fundamentally against the expansion of slavery into the West, and would successfully win the presidency by 1860.