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Environment & Geography
Ideas, Beliefs & Culture
Attempts to solve slavery
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What is sectionalism?
A devotion to the interests of one geographic region over the interests of the country as a whole.
100
An anti-slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that made Americans aware of the harsh and inhumane conditions of slavery and put the country on the road to Civil War.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
100
What is Missouri Compromise?
Missouri would become a slave state while Maine would be a free state.
200
What are scalawags?
A derogatory term for Southerners who were working with the North to buy up land from desperate Southerners.
200
The idea commonly held in the mid-1800’s that America had the God-given right to expand westward across the entire North American continent. It would lead to the Mexican War.
What is the Manifest Destiny and what significant event would it lead to?
200
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
The Fugitive Slave Acts were a pair of federal laws that allowed for the capture and return of runaway slaves within the territory of the United States.
300
What led to the Union’s military victory over the Confederacy in the devastating Civil War?
The North’s greater manpower and industrial resources, its leadership, and the decision for emancipation.
300
An anti-foreign feeling that arose in the 1840’s and 1850’s in response to the influx of Irish and German Catholics.
What is nativism?
300
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The Kansas-Nebrask Act was an 1854 bill that mandated “popular sovereignty”–allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state’s borders.
400
State three things the enthusiasm for U.S. territorial expansion resulted in.
(1) War, (2) Opening of new markets, (3) Acquisition of new territory and (4) Increased ideological conflicts.
400
They were shows that consisted of white actors in black face. They consisted of comedy routines, dances, and instrumental solos. These shows displayed how whites saw blacks as lazy and uneducated.
What are minstrel shows?
400
What was the court case of Dred-Scott vs. Sanford about?
The Supreme Court ruled that Americans of African descent, whether free or slave, were not American citizens and could not sue in federal court. The Court also ruled that Congress lacked power to ban slavery in the U.S. territories.
500
A proposal to outlaw slavery in the territory added to the United States by the Mexican Cession; it was passed in the House of Representatives but was defeated in the Senate. Although it was defeated, it transformed the topic of slavery in America.
What is the Wilmot Proviso? What is its importance?
500
What was the Freeport Doctrine?
Stephen Douglas's doctrine that, in spite of the Dred Scott decision, slavery could be excluded from territories of the United States by local legislation.