Legislation
After the Compromise of 1850 this congressman was called the "Great Pacificator".
Who was Henry Clay?
She was the most famous Underground Railroad Conductor.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
This was the movement to ban slavery.
What is Abolition?
This is the seperation of economy and culture that helps lead the country to Civil War.
What is sectionalism?
This led people to travel across the country in large crowds to build their fortune.
What was the Gold Rush?
This law was passed in 1793 and gave slave owners a way to recover runaway slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This man led a violent raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia Amory to inspire slaves to revolt.
Who was John Brown.
This was a movement to abstain from drinking.
What is Temperence?
This was the idea that Americans had the divine right to continue pushing West.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This was the path taken by settlers moving out to the Pacific North West.
What was the Oregon Trail?
This law allowed already wealthy land owners to purchase more Native American land at low prices.
What was the Indian Removal Act?
This was a former slave who bought his freedom for $600 after winning the lottery.
Who was Denmark Vesey?
This was a religious movement that led to increased church attendance and involved more people in other movements like abolition and Temperence.
What is the 2nd Great Awakening?
This was the result of industrialization and an increased demand for Southern Cotton.
What was the Cotton Boom?
Your party gets raided by a band of Indians!
You lose 300 points!
This was the bill to organize the territory that is modern day Kansas and Nebraska into a state.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
In 1839 a slave named Joseph Cinqué led a mutiny of 53 illegally purchased enslaved people on this slave ship.
What was the Amistad?
This is the right to vote.
What is Suffrage?
This is the economic transition from agriculture to industrial or mechanical.
What is industrialism?
This was an incredibly common 19th century disease that would affect travelers on the Oregon Trail.
What is dysentery?
Thomas Jefferson wrote this law to nullify the Aliens and Seditions Act. It served as a predecessor to the Nullification Ordinance from South Carolina.
What is the Virginia Kentucky Resolution?
These were used to communicate with slaves as they ran away to free states or territories.
Ex: Monkey Wrench, Shoofly
What are Quilt Codes?
True or False: Every woman wanted to have the right to vote.
This was a full-scale guerrilla war in Kansas.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This was the idea that individual states should decide their slave or free status.
What is popular sovereignty?