Civics and Gov
This is another word for the National Government.
Federal
This is the name of the era before the Civil War
Antebellum
The Missouri Compromise split America into what halves?
Double Points for the latitude line!
North and South. 3630 Line
This rush of movement west exploded the population of California
California Gold Rush
This man was elected President in 1860, causing 7 southern states to leave the USA
Abraham Lincoln
A Platform
The nickname given to this product that made the south very rich
King Cotton
In the Compromise of 1850, California decided to be a what kind of state?
Free state
This was the belief that Americans had a god given right to move out west
Manifest Destiny
This man was the President of the Confederate States
Jefferson Davis
A fundamental principle of the U.S. Constitution, aimed at preventing any single branch of government from accumulating too much power.
Checks and Balances
This tax made foreign goods expensive. It benefitted Northern factories
Tariffs
In the Compromise of 1850, for California to be free, what did slave states receive?
The Fugitive Slave Act (Double if you explain what it was, up for a steal if you get it wrong)
This Supreme Court Decision claimed that African Americans were not equal and that slaves were always slaves no matter if they were in free states or not
Dredd Scott Decision
This woman was a former slave and helped many slaves escape in secret routes in the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
A constitutional government with three separate branches, each of which would have defined abilities to check the powers of the others
Double points if you write all 3 branches
Separation of Powers: Legislative, Executive, and Judicial
This was the political party of the south and the party of slavery
Democrat Party
This action ordered the US government to show the exact location of where Mexico attacked the US Army before the Mexican American War started. Who created it?
Spot Resolution by Abraham Lincoln
This was a pro-slavery document that tried to give Kansas Slavery
Lecompton Constitution
This man was an abolitionist. A former slave himself, he wrote many book, speeches and worked for the government to help African American equality
Frederick Douglas
PRESENTATION! Define Popular Sovereignty and tell me what event related to it caused tension before the Civil War?
Answer must say...voting, people deciding on whether or not they want to be slave or free states, Kansas-Nebraska Act
PRESENTATION! How are Abolitionists, Free Soil Party and Republicans linked?
Must say, Freedom or No Slavery and talk about how Free Soilers were made of abolitionists and merged into Republicans
PRESENTATION! How are the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and Wilmot Proviso linked?
TGH gave America all the new land. WP tried making a law to ban slavery in that land
The war before the Civil War was what bloody moment?
Bleeding Kansas
PRESENTATION! Who was John Brown and what did he do?
Must say abolitionist, Bleeding Kansas, Harpers Ferry