Semester 1 Review
This global conflict between Britain and France, fought from 1756 to 1763, in the American colonies and set the stage for the American Revolution.
What is the Seven Years War?
This political party was founded in 1854 by anti-slavery activists and modernizers in response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What is the Republican Party?
The period of violence in Kansas?
What is Bleeding Kansas?
The first compromise that was to prevent slavery to spread above 360 30' latitude line.
What was the 1820 Missouri Comprimise?
This person won the 1860 election.
Who was Abraham Lincoln.
This English philosopher argued that all people have natural rights to life, liberty, and property, and that governments must protect these rights or risk being overthrown.
Who is John Locke?
This Democratic candidate, who had previously served as a U.S. Senator from Illinois, was the party's nominee in the 1860 election but lost to Abraham Lincoln.
Who is Stephen A. Douglas?
This 1857 Supreme Court decision declared that African Americans, whether free or enslaved, could not be citizens and ruled that Congress had no authority to prohibit slavery in the territories.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
This historic 2,000-mile route was used by pioneers in the mid-1800s to travel westward to Oregon, seeking fertile land and economic opportunity, despite hardships like disease and rough terrain.
What is the Oregon Trail?
Leader of the Harpers Ferry Insurrection.
Who was John Brown?
A war between the United States and what country from 1846 and 1848
What is Mexico?
This 1850 law required citizens to assist in the capture and return of runaway slaves, further intensifying sectional tensions between the North and South.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This 1854 law, introduced by Senator Stephen Douglas, repealed the Missouri Compromise and allowed the residents of two territories to decide the issue of slavery through popular sovereignty, leading to violent clashes in "Bleeding Kansas."
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This 1845 event, which resulted in the incorporation of the Republic of Texas into the United States, was a key factor leading to the Mexican-American War and intensified debates over slavery in the new territories.
What is the annexation of Texas?
the 15th President.
Who was James Buchanan?
This 1832-1833 confrontation between South Carolina and the federal government arose when South Carolina declared it could nullify federal tariffs, challenging the authority of President Andrew Jackson.
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What is the Nullification Crisis?
This 1850s political party, officially known as the American Party, was characterized by its strong anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic stance, earning the nickname for its secretive nature.
What is the Know-Nothing Party?
Delivered by this Massachusetts senator in 1850, the speech supported the Compromise of 1850, urging the North to accept the Fugitive Slave Act in order to preserve the Union.
What is the Seventh of March Speech?
This 1854 treaty purchased land from Mexico, adding present-day southern Arizona and southern New Mexico to the United States to facilitate the construction of a southern transcontinental railroad route.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
The person who canned Senator Sumner.
Who was Representative Preston Brooks?
This group support sending African-Americans back to Africa.
what was the American colonization society?
The name of a pro-slavery constitution in Kansas.
What was the Lecompton Constitution?
This economic depression, triggered by the collapse of a major bank and the overexpansion of railroads and land speculation, disproportionately affected the North and contributed to sectional tensions before the Civil War.
What is the Panic of 1857?
This 1848 treaty ended the Mexican-American War, ceding over 500,000 square miles of territory, including California and the Southwest, to the United States.
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What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin".
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?