West
What event caused thousands to travel to california
gold rush
What was the first state to secede
South Carolina
What abolitionist took hundreds of slaves through the underground railroad
Harriet Tubman
What incident involved a fight in congress
Brooks-Sumner Incident
Who is Huck's civilized best friend who enjoys extravagant stories and schemes
Tom Sawyer
What state drafted a constitution in 1849 that excluded slavery and applied to Congress
California
What was sequence of violent events over the kansas nebraska territory
Bleeding Kansas
What compromise admitted California as a free state and abolished slave trade in DC
Compromise of 1850
What election Did lincoln win
Election of 1860
Who wrote Huck finn
Mark Twain
What territory was split between US and Great Britain
Oregon Territory
What book highly influenced the norths view of slavery
Uncle Tom's Cabin
What system that helped enslaved African Americans follow a network of escape routes out of the South to freedom in the North
Underground Railroad
What debates spread lincolns popularity
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Who does Huck fall in love with
Mary Jane
How much did the US pay mexico after their war
$15 Million
Who Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What slave was taken to the supreme court over him not being released from slavery
Dred scott
Who was the 16th president of the united states
Abraham Lincoln
What family group in the book models a real family group from that time period
The Grangerfords
What treaty gave the US 525000 square miles
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
what abolitionist alienated the south and the north
John Brown
What was the method used to communicate escape routes between slaves
Songs
What Act added 2 states and gave them popular sovereignty
Kansas-Nebraska Act
When was Huck finn written
1884