This was the period of great progress and innovation in the American arts, including the advent of the short story and unrhymed poetry.
What is the American Renaissance?
100
The North believed in freedom for this.
What is men?
100
The divine right of the American people and government to move and settle the West is known as this.
What is Manifest Destiny?
100
The South invested a lot of its wealth in these that did most of the work on plantations.
What are slaves?
100
This was the act passed by Congress as part of the Compromise of 1850 making the Underground Railroad illegal and authorizing military action against runaway slaves and abolitionists.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act (Law)?
200
This is the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, a call to action.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
200
The South believed in the freedom of this.
What is owning property (slaves)?
200
On the move Westward, Americans encountered these peoples, many of them moved to Oklahoma by the US government years before.
Who are Native Americans?
200
The South earned most of its income from plants grown for a profit and intended to be made into a finished product, especially cotton.
What are cash crops?
200
This was the nickname for the event that caused an inflation of border ruffians, voter fraud and violence, and physical altercations in Congress.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
300
This is the new party formed with the intent of making all men free everywhere, it later combined itself with the Republican party.
What is the Free Soil Party?
300
This was the foremost Southern senator at the time, usually central to the debates over slavery and states' rights.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
300
In 1837, John Deere revolutionized the West and Midwest with his invention of this piece of farm equipment.
What is the steel plow?
300
The North believed in this form or ideology of economics and labor, in which the worker is compensated for their hard work, especially highlighting the small farmer.
What is free labor ideology?
300
In the election of 1860, without taking a single Southern state, this Republican won the presidency; SC seceded immediately after.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
400
The sectional crises became so intense that even these split between North and South, one remaining that way to this day.
What is religions or churches?
400
James Birney coined this phrase to define the South's need to control government in their favor.
What is slave power?
400
Much of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas were won in this war prior to the Civil War.
What is the Mexican-American War
400
The North, as it industrialized, continued to compensate workers, but the quality of work became more abusive and less rewarding, defining men by how much money they made and becoming known as these.
What are wage slaves?
400
This slave waited 11 years to bring his case before the Supreme Court and argue, that as a Missouri slave moved to the free state of Illinois by his master, he was a free man.
Who is Dred Scott?
500
The author of The Scarlet Letter.
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?
500
Many Southern governments believed they had a right to do this to any federal law they did not want to uphold, later leading them to defend secession.
What is nullify (nullification)?
500
Many border states and regions such as Indiana were settled by Southerners in the south and Northerners in the north, earning the north half of these regions this nickname.
What is the Yankee Strip?
500
In the South, over 1/2 the population was this, small farmers that rented their land and tools from a wealthy plantation owner.
What are yeoman farmers?
500
This vehement abolitionist took to murder, theft, and treason when his government would not stand against slavery.