Allowed slavery in new states if the states fell below the 36 30 latitude line, and made states free if they fell above that line.
What is Missouri Compromise
100
Three influential senators who were also members of the Whig party who opposed Andrew Jackson
Who are John Calhoun, Henry Clay, and Daniel Webster
100
Cotton, Tobacco, Indigo, and Rice
What are crops in South Carolina
100
The two reasons people travel westward.
What is gold and to influence voting in new territories.
100
The crisis that was triggered by John Calhoun's belief that states should be able to nullify or void federal laws if the laws were damaging to the state
What is Nullifiation Crisis
200
Two acts/decisions/laws that favored slave owners
What are the fugitive slave law and the Dred Scott decision
200
laws governing slaves that became even more strict after the Vesey Plot
What are slave codes
200
Invention that shifted the balance of power from the lowcountry of SC to the upstate.
What is the Cotton Gin
200
repealed the Missouri Compromise and established the concept of "popular sovereignty".
What is The Kansas-Nebraska Act
200
A tax that was put in place to protect US industry by taxing products imported from other countries, and ultimately led to the Nullification Crisis.
What is the protective tariff/ the Tariff of Abominations.
300
Ended in the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo in 1848 that outlined the Mexican Cession and stated a huge amount of land would be given to the US for a small payment.
What is The Mexican-American War
300
Female abolitionist sisters who gained national fame by speaking out against slavery
Who are Sarah and Angelina Grimke
300
Farmers who had few or no slaves and just grew enough for their family to live on.
Who are subsistence farmers
300
The reason people flocked to California in 1849
What is gold
300
The two groups that were created as a result of the Nullifiation Crisis. Some were pro-government while the others were for state's rights.
Who are the Unionists and the Nullifiers
400
Protected the right of of southern slave owners to travel North into the free states to recover a runaway slave and outlined that even in a free state slaves can be recaptured and the prosecution of those who assisted the slave.
What is The Fugitive Slave Law/Act
400
"Bleeding Kansas" was the nickname given to the Kansas territory as a result of the fighting between these two groups.
Who are the abolitionists and the pro-slavery groups
400
Inventor of the cotton gin
Who is Eli Whitney
400
Addressed the problem of new territories starting with Missouri and Maine, in determining what states would be able to be slave states and what states would be free.
What is the Missouri Compromise
400
an 1857 Supreme Court case that stated a slave could not sue for his own freedom, even if he lived in a free state because a slave was not considered an American citizen and had no protetion under the law.
What is Dred Scott vs. Sanford
500
California became a part of the United states as a result
What is The Compromise of 1850
500
The abolitionist who attacked the arsenal at Harper's Ferry in an effort to free the slaves. He was eventually aptured and hanged for his crimes
Who is John Brown
500
The use of human labor often against ones will under sometimes harsh conditions for no pay
What is slavery
500
Parts of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and California
What are the areas that became property of the US as a result of the Mexican (or Mexican-American) War
500
The winner of the 1860 election that led to SC's decision to secede from the union.