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A revival of Christianity that led to the creation of new religious groups, an increase in membership in the Baptist and Methodist churches, and also spawned a number of social reformation movements.
What is The Second Great Awakening?
100
The number of slaves that most whites in the south owned.
What is zero?
100
He coined the phrase Manifest Destiny.
Who is John L. O'Sullivan?
100
The idea that people in a given territory should decide whether it would become a free or slave state.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
100
This state was admitted as a free state as a result of the Compromise of 1850.
What is California?
200
This document was written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and others. It argued for women's rights, including suffrage, was modeled after the DOI, and was presented at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848.
What is The Declaration of Sentiments?
200
Most slaves were owned by these people.
Who are large plantation owners?
200
This President, originally a democrat, was kicked out of the Whig party because he vetoed Henry Clay's proposed National Bank and a Whig produced tariff bill.
Who is John Tyler?
200
A political party that sought to limit slavery to only the states in which it already existed.
What is the Free Soiler Party?
200
This line of latitude marks the border between Oregon and Canada today.
What is 49 degrees North?
300
A transcendentalist author, his works included "Walden" and "Civil Disobedience."
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
300
Her book, "Uncle Tom's Cabin", was a huge success in spreading the ideas of the abolitionist movement and making people aware of the horrors of slavery.
Who is Harriett Beecher Stowe?
300
This "war" took place between the U.S. and England over the location of the border between Canada and Maine.
What is the Aroostook War?
300
She was the most famous "conductor" of the Underground Railroad, which helped slaves escape to Canada.
Who is Harriett Tubman?
300
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The Compromise of 1850 included a new harsher fugitive slave law and outlawed the slave trade here.
400
This Art School in New York was comprised of a number of artists whose paintings typically featured American landscapes.
What is The Hudson River School?
400
This abolitionist group wanted to transport freed slaves to the American colony of Liberia in Africa.
What is the American Colonization Society?
400
The Mexican American War ended with an American victory and the acquisition of this territory to the United States, the largest gain of new territory in American history.
What is the Mexican cession?
400
This scheme would have added Cuba to the United States as a slave state.
What is the Ostend Manifesto?
400
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He opened up trade with Japan with the Treaty of Kanagawa.
500
This experimental society predicted that Christ would return on October 22, 1844 and lost credibility when it did not happen.
Who are "Millerites" (or Adventists)
500
This group of people in the south did not practice slavery and despised the planter aristocracy that influenced politics and laws in their states. They were the most pro-Union segment of Southern Society during the Civil War.
Who are Mountain Whites?
500
These two men created a treaty that ended the Aroostook war between the U.S. and Great Britain over the Maine border.
Who are Daniel Webster and Lord Ashburton?
500
This Illinois congressman designed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which allowed popular sovereignty to determine whether Kansas and Nebraska would be free or slave states in 1854.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
500
This land deal was made at an incredibly high cost of $10 million by the U.S. because it was thought that the trans-continental railroad would travel through it, something that never happened.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?