the election of Abraham Lincoln and the secession of Southern states lead to the...
What is the Civil War.
100
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott were best known for their struggle to
What is promote women's right to vote?
SUFFRAGE - means voting.
100
What is manifest destiny?
What is the right of the United States to own all land stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
To make your own destiny.
100
Racism and segregation is based on the idea that one race is ________________
What is thinking one race is superior to the other?
200
In the 1850s, why did many runaway slaves go to Canada?
The fugitive slave act put them at risk if they stayed in the United States
200
What fort, is considered to have seen the first shots of the Civil War?
What is Fort Sumpter?
200
One way that "Bleeding Kansas," the Dred Scott decision, and John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry had a similar effect on the United States was that these events
What is lead to the Civil War…increase sectionalism tension.
200
What are some reasons people started moving out west?
What is search for gold, land. Escape from violent and hard city life?
200
Which woman started the American Red Cross?
Who is Clara Barton?
300
The decision of Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) was important because it
It made slaves legal property. This upset abolitionists and fired up their fight against slavery.
300
Early in his Presidency, Abraham Lincoln declared that his primary goal as President was to
What is to preserve the Union?
300
Prior to 1850, what was a main reason the North developed an economy increasingly based on manufacturing while the South continued to rely on an economy based on agriculture?
What is a difference in geography.
300
The Louisiana Purchase gave the United States total control of which river?
What is the Mississippi River?
300
Who was the sixteenth president and signed the Emancipation Proclamation?
Who is President Abraham Lincoln.
400
During the 1830s, Nat Turner became the leader of
What is a slave uprising that left many whites dead
400
Who was the only President of the Confederacy?
A) Jefferson Davis
B) Robert E. Lee
C) John Brown
D) Ulysses S. Grant
Who is Jefferson Davis.
400
Which problem did the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act attempt to solve?
What is the issue of extending slavery into new western territories?
400
Which event was most influenced by the principle of Manifest Destiny?
A) founding of Jamestown
B) defeat of Britain in the Revolutionary War
C) purchase of Florida
D) acquisition of the Mexican Cession
What is D) the acquisition of the Mexican Cession
400
What does temperance mean?
Abstinence of alcohol. No alcohol.
500
Which author’s work gave support to the Abolitionist movement before the Civil War?
A) Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle
B) Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind
C) Booker T. Washington’s Up From Slavery
D) Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin
What is D) Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin
500
Who said this "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would do that.”
Abraham Lincoln
500
In the period between 1820 and 1860, Southerners wanted slavery extended to the Western territories so that the South would
Keep enough strength in the Senate so that the South could protect Southern interests.
500
Which states were added to the United States as a result of the Treaty of Guadalupe?
What is Texas, New Mexico, and California
500
Which concept did you learn about best categorizes this statement?
“No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country: this far you should go and no further.”