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Hodgepodge
100
Man who invented the cotton gin, making slavery more profitable.
Who is Eli Whitney?
100
First Southern state to leave the Union.
What is South Carolina?
100
A name for large Southern farms.
What is a plantation?
100
Area referred with the slogan "54-40 or Fight!"
What was Oregon?
100
Term meaning the US was control all land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is Manifest Destiny?
200
Famous congressman from Kentucky nicknamed "The Great Compromiser."
Who is Henry Clay?
200
Area seeking statehood that was the subject of Henry Clay's first compromise.
What is Missouri?
200
A tax on good brought into the United States from other nations.
What is a tariff?
200
Founder of the Mormon religion.
Who is Joseph Smith?
200
President during the Mexican-American War.
Who is James K. Polk?
300
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
300
Site of the first shots fired between the North and South.
What is Fort Sumter?
300
Political party formed in 1854.
What is the Republican Party?
300
American negotiator for the Louisiana Purchase.
Who is Robert Livingston or James Monroe?
300
Author of "Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World" and advocate of violence to end slavery.
Who is David Walker?
400
Black man who sued for his freedom.
Who is Dred Scott?
400
Site of a famous raid on a federal arsenal.
What is Harper's Ferry?
400
People who supported the end of slavery.
Who were abolitionists?
400
He had permission from Mexico to bring settlers to Texas.
Who is Stephen Austin?
400
Name of the Tiger in Life of Pi.
Who is Richard Parker?
500
Black preacher who led a slave revolt in Virginia in 1831.
Who is Nat Turner?
500
First capital of the Confederacy.
What is Montgomery, Alabama?
500
Latin term which meant you were to be told why you would be arrested.
What is habeus corpus?
500
First Secretary of Treasury.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
500
Known as the "Black Moses".
Who is Harriet Tubman?