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What country was Texas fighting in the Texas Revolution?
Mexico
What group played a major role in the settling of the American West?
Mormons
What is Nat Turner most famous for?
Leading a violent slave revolt
What person, along with Lucretia Mott, organized the first woman's rights convention at Seneca Falls, NY?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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What were 2 laws that Americans were not following when they moved into Tejas (Texas)
-brought slaves
-did not convert to Catholicism
-did not become Mexican Citizens
-did not learn the language
Which group was forcibly relocated by means of the “Trail of Tears”?
Cherokee
What was Abraham Lincoln’s position on slavery in 1858?
Slavery should not spread b/c it is morally and politically wrong
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Which event was most responsible for creating a diverse population in California?
Th Gold Rush
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
What did the temperance movement work to end?
End use of alcohol
What was the main topic of the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
Slavery in the territories
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What did the abolition movement promote?
Ending of slavery
What nation was formed in 1861 and elected Jefferson Davis as president?
The Confederacy (Confederate States of America)
What country was Texas fighting in the Texas Revolution?
Mexico v. Texas
Who was the former slave published the North Star and worked to end slavery through political means?
Frederick Douglass
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What reformer fought for change for the mentally ill?
Dorothea Dix
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 was one effect of John Brown’s actions at Harpers Ferry?
An increase in disagreements between the North and the South
Why did people fear secession?
They believed that it could result in the break-up of the Union
“Fifty-Four Forty or Fight” was about a boundary dispute between the United States and what country?
Great Britain
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Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What term refers to the 19th-century belief that married women’s activities should be limited to housework and family?
Cult of domesticity
Why was the Southern economy dependent on slavery?
The Southern economy was country land and consisted mostly of plantations.
Who did Stephen Douglas accuse of being an abolitionist and a supporter of racial equality?
Abe Lincoln
What caused the issue and delay with the annexation or the addition of Texas to the U.S.?
The balance of free and slave states
What law/act allowed California to be admitted as a free state and gave Utah and NM the right to choose whether they had slavery or not?
Compromise of 1850
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Who led the Pottawatomie Creek Massacre that led to Bleeding Kansas?
John Brown
Who was the former slave, who changed her name, and spoke in support of abolition and women’s rights?
Sojourner Truth
Who was at the center of the court case that decided that slaves did not have rights of citizens?
Dred Scott
Who argued in the Lincoln-Douglas debates that popular sovereignty would allow slavery to end on its own?
Stephen Douglas