The most controversial clause of this post-Mexican War compromise called for increased enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
100
This group of yeoman fought for abolition in the Western territories.
What is the freesoilers?
100
This famous military maneuver broke the economic and psychological ability of the South to wage war.
What is Sherman's March to the Sea?
100
These racist Southerners used terrorist tactics to prevent freedmen from voting.
What is the KKK?
200
This act caused the explosion of violence known as bleeding Kansas.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
200
This party--founded in opposition to Jackson--disintegrated over a split on the slavery issue during the presidency of Millard Fillmore.
What is the Whigs?
200
This amendment abolished slavery?
What is the 13th Amendment?
200
These state laws attempted to restrict freedmen socially, politically, and economically in the wake of emancipation.
What is the Black Codes?
200
This term is used to describe progressive social experiments like Oneida and Brook Farm that sprung up in the antebellum period.
What is utopian communities?
300
This last ditch compromise sought a Constitutional Amendment protecting slavery.
What is the Crittenden Compromise?
300
A coalition of free soilers, ex-whigs and abolitionists formed this party in 1854.
What is the republican party?
300
This amendment provided equality, civil rights and citizenship to freedmen.
What is the 14th?
300
This clause kept whites unencumbered by the strictures of literacy tests that suppressed black voting?
What is the grandfather clause?
300
After surviving an assassination attempt, this Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson went on to purchase Alaska from the Russians.
What is William Seward?
400
In a flurry of Union nation building that included a national bank, a paper currency and a revenue raising tariff, this Act provided the land grants for the Transcontinental Railway.
What is the Pacific Railway Act?
400
To decide this election, Republicans agreed to give up on military reconstruction in exchange for putting Hayes in the White House.
What is the Election of 1876 or Compromise of 1877
400
Irish immigrants were attacked over religion in the public schools in this Eastern city?
What is the Philadelphia Bible Riots?
400
This system kept freedmen in perpetual debt by forcing them to rent land purchase supplies on credit.
What is the crop lien system?
400
This term was used to describe abstinence from alcohol in the 19th century.
What is Temperance?
500
His trial resulted in Roger Taney declaring that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
What is Dred Scott?
500
He was the president of the Confederacy.
What is Jefferson Davis?
500
Benjamin Butler used this term to refer to slaves who escaped into Union territory.
What is contrabands?
500
This 1854 statement called on the US to annex Cuba in a flurry of expansionism.