his election led to secession of the south in 1860
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
a northern strategy to strangle the Confederate economy during the Civil War
What is the Anaconda Plan?
100
this is the name of the country formed by the rebellious south in the Civil War
What is the Confederacy?
100
this is the first war to occur after the Industrial Revolution
What is the Civil War?
100
"My object in this struggle is to save the Union."
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
this group asserted that blacks in America were not US citizens in 1857
What is the Supreme Court?
200
this proposed letting "popular sovereignty" decide the issue of slavery in the western territories
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
200
he was found guilty of treason and hanged for his role in the botched slave uprising at Harper's Ferry
Who is John Brown?
200
his teachings about civil disobedience--peacefully refusing to pay taxes that would support slavery--later influenced Mahatma Ghandi and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
200
"A house divided against itself cannot stand'...I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free."
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
300
Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and William Lloyd Garrison were all members of this mid-Nineteenth Century reform movement
What is an abolitionist?
300
after the invention of the cotton gin...and over the next forty years...King Cotton and cotton cultivation spread all over this geographical area
What is the South?
300
this law passed by Congress in 1850 allowed southern slaveholders to hunt down their escaped property
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
300
this novel on the immorality of slavery was widely read in the North and was the bestseller of the 19th Century
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
300
this Amendment states....."The right of the people to be secure...against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated....."
What is the Fourth Amendment?
400
this invention provided a faster way to communicate by sending and receiving electronic impulses
What is the telegraph?
400
this "Awakening" played an important role in stirring reform movements to end slavery, reform prisons, and ban alcoholic beverages
What is the Second Great Awakening?
400
this 1832 Supreme Court case stated..."The Cherokee Nation is a distinct community, occupying its own territory.....in which the laws of Georgia can have no force..."
What is Worcester v. Georgia?
400
he perfected the art of suspenseful short stories such as the "Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque"
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
400
"We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men and women are created equal..."
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
500
this ordinance prohibited slavery in the territories north of the Ohio River in 1787
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
500
this river formed the western boundary of the United States in the Treaty of Paris-1783
What is the Mississippi River?
500
this compromise reached in Philadelphia in 1787 dealt with how the states and their populations would be represented in Congress
What is the Great Compromise?
500
this economic policy stated that the British colonists of North America should sell cash crops to England and in return buy more expensive finished English products
What is Mercantilism?
500
"Make it a good day or not.....the choice is yours."
Who is Ms. Castro....Who is the Principal Of Oliveira Middle School?