Slavery
What did the abolition movement promote?
ending slavery
Who did Stephen Douglas accuse of being an abolitionist and a supporter of racial equality?
Abraham Lincoln
What person, along with Lucretia Mott, organized the first woman's rights convention at Seneca Falls, NY?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
What country was Texas fighting in the Texas Revolution?
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Mexico
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Which group was forcibly relocated by means of the "Trail of Tears"?
Cherokee
Why was the Southern economy dependent on slavery?
The Southern economy was country land and consisted mostly of plantations.
What was the main topic of the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
Slavery in the territories
What did the temperance movement work to get rid of?
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End use of alcohol
NAME GAME
Who led the Pottawatomie Creek Massacre that led to Bleeding Kansas?
John Brown
What decision stated that Congress could not forbid slavery in any territory because it would interfere with a slaveholder's right to own property?
Dred Scott decision
What is Nat Turner most famous for?
Leading a violent slave revolt
What was Abraham Lincoln's position on slavery in 1858?
Slavery should not spread because it is morally and politically wrong
What term refers to the 19th-century belief that married women's activities should be limited to housework and family?
Cult of Domesticity
What caused the issue and delay with the annexation or addition of Texas?
The balance of free and slave states
Which event was most responsible for creating a diverse population in California?
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The gold rush
BOGGLE
Who was the former slave published the North Star and worked to end slavery through political means?
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Frederick Douglass
Trash Ball
Why did people fear secession?
They believed that it could result in the break-up of the Union
What reformer fought for change for the mentally ill?
Dorthea Dix
What nation was formed in 1861 and elected Jefferson Davis as president?
The Confederacy (Confederate States of America)
What group played a major role in the settling of the American West?
Mormons
Who was the free black person who advised A-As to fight for freedom rather than wait for slave owners to end slavery?
David Walker
Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Concentration
Who was the former slave, who changed her name, and spoke in support of abolition and women's rights?
Sojourner Truth
"Fifty-Four Forty or Fight" was about a boundary dispute between the United States and what country?
Great Britain
What law/act allowed California to be admitted as a free state and gave Utah and New Mexico the right to choose whether they had slavery or not?
Compromise of 1850