A war that broke out in 1854 about whether Kansas would be a free state or a slave state.
What is Bloody Kansas?
100
The president at the time of the Civil War. He was against slavery. He's known for being honest Abe.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
This compromise took place in 1819. It was solved as saying that Missouri would be admitted as a slave state, and Maine would be admitted as a free state, so that there would be a balance in the states.
What is The Missouri Compromise?
100
The machine that could clean cotton faster than by the hand, and increased the need for bigger plantations and slaves.
What is The Cotton Gin?
100
They were looking at how poeple were starting to think that slaves should have rights. and though "Why not us?"
What encouraged the womens' rights movement?
200
First state to secede.
What is South Carolina known for?
200
The person who killed 60 plantation owners becasue he said that he had a vision from God telling him to do so.
Who is Nat Turner?
200
The compromise when an African-American was counted as 3/5 of a person so that the South could have more congressmen in the house of representitives.
What is The 3/5 Compromise?
200
The issue of slavery between the North and South.
What was the main cause of the Civil War?
200
this occured when the laws that congress made were ignored by the South.
What is nullifacation?
300
Washington D.C.
What is our nation's capital?
300
The person who proposed the missouri compromise.
Who is Henry Clay?
300
In this compromise it was decided that every state above the 36'30 line would be a free state, and every state below this line would be a slave state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
300
Protests, abolitionists, and the Civil War.
How was slavery ended?
300
In 1848, America defeated mexico, and won millions of square milles of land. This completed a clear sense of the "Manifest Destiny."
What is The Wilmot Proviso?
400
Territories, slave states and free states.
What were the names of the places in the US?
400
The president during Nullification in 1832.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
400
People started to move to California for gold. Since there was so many people, California decided to petition for statehood. The problem was that part of California ws under the 30' 36' line so Clay deseperately made a compromise.
1. Would be admitted as a free state.
2.Slave selling but not ownership was banned.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
500
Misouri and Maine
Name the 2 states that were involved in the Mosouri Comprmise.
500
He became the most famous member of the beecher family by publidhing 'Uncle Tom's Cabin or Or Life Among the Lowly'
Who is Harriet Beecher?
500
Attempts by Gabriel Prosser and Denmark Vesey.
Name 2 other slave revolts that did not succed before the Nat Turner slave revolt.
500
Where an African-American was forced to work for a white person without pay.
What is slavery?
500
South Carolina seceded from the union and the new Confederate States of America fired on ft. Sumter on April 1861.