Territory Days
War of 1812 & Miss. Constitution
Slavery Compromises and Laws
Life as a Slave
Mexican American War & Secession
100
Year Miss. became a territory
What is 1798
100
Hero of the Battle of New Orleans, future President
Who is Andrew Jackson
100
Person who opposes slavery
What is Abolitionist
100
Number of days worked a week.
What is 6
100
Reason we fought and the major thing America got out of its victory in Mexican-American War
What is land
200
Yeah Miss. became a state
What is 1817
200
reason many native Americans fought to with the British against America in the War of 1812
What is to get their land back
200
War between Missouri and Kansas that was sparked by the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
What is Bleeding Kansas or the Border Wars
200
Inventor of Cotton Gin, whose invention increased the demand for slave labor.
Who is Eli Whitney
200
American Political party that supported the Mexican-American War and Slavery?
What is Democratic Party
300
right of American citizenship not enjoyed by people living in US territories
What is voting
300
voting requirements in Mississippi's first constitution that was removed by the constitution of 1832.
What is land ownership.
300
Supreme Court decision that said that a black man has no rights a white man has to respect, and ruled that a slave does not become free just by leaving slave states.
What is Dred Scott Case
300
Thing denied to slaves to keep them illiterate and ignorant.
What is their education
300
Radical southern politicians who supported slavery so much they were willing to secede from the union and start a new country.
What is fire-eaters.
400
President who made the Louisiana Purchase
Who is Thomas Jefferson
400
Word used to describe the kidnapping of American sailors and their forced labor on British ships
What is Impressment or Impressing
400
Early American law that created a balance of power between slave and free states, wherein for every free state there had to be a slave state.
What is the Missouri Compromise.
400
Most powerful people in the flush period.
What are cotton-rich land owners.
400
Senator from Mississippi who resigned his commission to fight in the war, would later become the President of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis
500
Divisions in the early days of our country like slaver and northern tarriffs that contributed to the civil war.
What is sectionalism
500
Native American Leader that rallied thousands to fight for the British....It starts with a T
Who is Tecumseh
500
Place raided by John Brown in an attempt to cause a massive slave uprising and bring about his aboltionist dreams.
What is Harper's Ferry
500
Belief that Africans were like lost children in need of a white man to guide them and save them from themselves.
What is Paternalism
500
Belief in America's divine right to spread across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny