Vocabulario
The violent uprisings after the Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854 that allowed states to vote on whether to be a slave state or free state.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
As people moved west into dangerous and potentially profitable areas, this game was developed that reflected the lives of people and the risks they took.
What is Poker?
The founding of this resource in 1848 in places like California increased immigration to America dramatically.
What is gold?
What is learning to read?
This part of government was equally represented among the states. Each time a new state was added, slave or free, they received two offices to fill in this voting organization.
What is the Senate?
An organization of workers in an effort to improve their working conditions and pay.
What is a Labor Union?
This 1803 purchase by President Thomas Jefferson nearly doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The Mexican America War took this fraction of Mexican territory as new land in America, which provided unbelievable benefits for those willing to risk settling there.
What is 1/3 of Mexico?
This "Slave Breaker" was employed to break Frederick Douglass once his original master learned he had been educating himself.
Who is Edward Covey?
The balance of free and slave states entering the Union was an attempt made to keep both sides (slave & free states) happy. Indiana came in as a free state in 1816 and this slave state famous for its river came in one year later.
What is Mississippi?
A society that is typical of modern industrial civilization and heterogeneous in cultural tradition that emphasizes secular values.
What is an Urban Society?
The Mexican American War of 1848 added California, Arizona, New Mexico, and these other two states.
What are Colorado and Nevada?
This European nation sold over 800,000 square miles of territory, located west of the Mississippi, to the United States with Natives still living there.
What is France?
Frederick Douglass escaped his life of slavery by impersonating military personnel of this branch of the military.
What is the Navy?
Abraham Lincoln was a member of this party, which focused on ending slavery in America, and caused the South some anxiety when he was elected.
What is the Republican Party?
An agricultural political movement that focused on reforms for the average person.
What is the Populist Movement?
This Native tribe was the most dangerous group the United States dealt with as they pushed west, taking land and moving people off their land.
Who are the Commanche?
The invention of this technology spiked the need for more slaves in the South for a time but ended up drastically lowering the price of a cash crop because it was overproduced and therefore lowering the value of slaves.
What is the Cotton Gin?
This act of Abraham Lincoln helped win Douglass over.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The election of Abraham Lincoln was the primary reason for Southern States seceding. Eleven states left the Union; Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, and these three other states.
What are South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia?
A financial crash that occurred when people over invested in railroads and wheat, which didn't pay off for thousands of businesses and families.
What is the Panic of 1857?
This culture developed in America due to the lack of law enforcement as people settled west into dangerous territories.
What is the Gun Culture?
This European nation ended slavery in its country and colonies in 1833 by purchasing them all free and paying the owners.
What is England?
Frederick Douglass regularly spoke to free and escaped black people in the North. He told them that needed to secure these three "Boxes" to be truly free.
What is the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the juror box?
With the Kansas Nebraska Act allowing states to vote on whether they became free or slave, four states soon decided to be free which created an imbalance in government. These are those four states.
What are California, Oregon, Minnesota, and Kansas?