Native Americans
Who signed the Indian Removal Act into law, and what was the act's purpose?
Andrew Jackson signed it into law. It gave the president authorization to negotiate with N.A. living east of the Mississippi in order to move them west
What did South Carolina threaten to do during the South Carolina Nullification Crisis of 1832? (2 things)
It threatened to not pay tariffs -- to nullify the federal law -- and to secede
what is the name for the period prior to the Civil War, roughly 1820-1861?
Antebellum
What was the largest revolt of enslaved people in History?
The Haitian Revolution
How did the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 give Southern slaveholders a legal tool to capture fugitives?
The act created a commission of judges who tried alleged fugitives and paid the judges more for every person they returned to the South
what happened in response to Chief Black Hawk's resistance refusal to move from his land in Illinois in 1832?
Bad Axe Massacre
How did the annexation of Texas become important to the debates over the expansion of slavery?
There was a national debate over whether to admit Texas as a slave territory
Why did many in the North believe the US declared war on Mexico in 1845?
They believed Southern politicians started the war in order to add more slave territory to the union
What was the impact of Nat Turner's Rebellion in 11831 on many white Southerners?
The feared the slave rebellions would become more widespread
How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 overide precedent?
The act allowed Kansas and Nebraska to enter as states and determine whether slavery could exist there through popular sovereignty, which violated the Missouri Compromise of 1820 that said states above a certain line could not be slave states
What 13 year war took place between the US government and native tribes and fugitive slaves in Georgia and Florida?
Second Seminole War
What did the Wilmot Proviso attempt to do?
Prevent the expansion of slavery from any territory acquired from Mexico
what event led to California becoming a state?
the California Gold Rush
what was the name for the network of people and places that helped enslaved people escape to the North and Canada?
The Underground railroad
What were 2 consequences of the Dred Scott decision?
The Supreme Court effectively ruled that the Republican Party's belief that slavery should not be allowed to expand was unconstitutional
It created a division between Northern and Southern Democrats
what are two outcomes of the Treaty of Hidalgo in 1848?
It gave the US territory that would become New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, etc
it led to a lasting sense of resentment from Mexico toward the US
What was the impact of Nat Turner's Rebellion in 11831 on many white Southerners?
The feared the slave rebellions would become more widespread
What big issue divided the American Anti-Slavery Society?
equal rights for women
How did the division of the Democratic Party affect the election of 1860?
It split the Democratic vote between a Northern and a Southern Democrat, allowing Lincoln to win the presidency
What did many Northern States pass in response to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793?
Personal liberty laws to offer protection to people who risked capture
How did the Compromise of 1850 determine the legality of slavery in Southwestern territories?
popular sovereignty
what did white Southerners fear after the Raid on Harper's Ferry?
They feared violence not just from enslaved people but also from abolitionists