American Citizenship
This document set the American colonies free from Britian.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The Compromise of 1820 resulted in the creation of this slave state.
What is Missouri?
John Brown intended to start a slave revolt in this town.
What is Harper's Ferry?
This man won the election of 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This woman made the first American flag.
Who is Betsy Ross?
The current Vice President.
J.D. Vance
The Missouri Compromise resulted in the creation of this free state.
What is Maine?
The Supreme Court case Scott v Sanford ruled that this group of people were NOT US citizens.
Who are slaves?
This word means to leave or break away from a country.
What is secede/secession?
This woman started prison reforms.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
The two parts of Congress.
What is the House and Senate?
Due to the gold rush, this western territory can become a state.
What is California?
This was John Brown's goal.
What is ending slavery through violence?
This is where the first battle of the Civil War was fought.
What is Fort Sumter?
This previously enslaved woman helped other enslaved people escape on the underground railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The number of Supreme Court judges needed for a majority ruling.
What is five?
The Compromise of 1850 brought this harsher law.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law/Act?
The period when John Brown was terrorizing Kansas was known as this.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
The President of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
The wife of Abraham Lincoln who went insane after the death of her husband and sons.
Who is Mary Todd Lincoln?
The reason the US entered the Vietnam War.
What is stopping the spread of communism?
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
John Brown was the first person in American history to be executed for this.
What is treason?
A northern Democrat who ran against Lincoln.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
This sweet-looking old lady would destroy bars and pubs with an axe in support of the temperance movement.
Who is Carrie Nation?