Vocabulary
The invalidation of an act.
What is nullification?
Bought from France in 1803 and doubled the US.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The intended rebellion in Richmond, VA that was leaked before it could start.
What is Gabriel Prosser's Rebellion?
Considered the "conductor" of the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
1857 Supreme Court case stating slaves were property not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
America's God-given right to expand west.
What is manifest destiny?
Bought from Spain in 1819.
What is Florida?
The rebellion in Southampton, VA that caused widespread fear and stricter slave codes.
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin that influenced the start of the Civil War.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
1850 act that stated it was the federal government's responsibility to find and return runaway slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
What is spoils system?
Annexed from independence in 1845.
What is Texas?
The forced removal of Native Americans from their ancestral homelands to modern-day Oklahoma.
What is the Trail of Tears?
Advisor to Lincoln and founder of The North Star.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
1854 act that repealed the Missouri Compromise and allowed the use of popular sovereignty.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Devotion or loyalty to a region over the nation as a whole.
What is sectionalism?
Gained from Great Britain in 1846.
What is Oregon?
The raid at Harpers Ferry that wanted to inspire more rebellions throughout the South.
What is John Brown's Raid?
Radical abolitionist that sparked fear amongst slaveholders.
Who is John Brown?
1820 compromise that established the 36' 30' N line for free and slave states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The people within decide to allow slavery or not.
What is popular sovereignty?
Gained from the Mexican-American War in 1848.
What is the Mexican Cession?
The battle between "Northerners" and "Southerners" in Kansas over slavery.
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
Founder of The Liberator and the New England Anti-Slavery Society.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
1850 compromise that allowed California to be a free state and send 1 pro-slavery Senator to Congress.