Which came first?
Land!
The Law
Influential Figures
Civil War
Reconstruction
100
Missouri Compromise or Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Missouri Compromise
100
This territory became the first state in the land acquired from the Louisiana Purchase.
Missouri
100
Name one law passed by British Parliament that led to the American Revolution.
Stamp Act, Sugar Act, Tea Act, Townshend Act, Quartering Act, Intolerable Act
100
This politician never became president, but he was called the 'Great Compromiser'.
Henry Clay
100
Name one strength of the South going into the Civil War.
Strong military leaders
100
This group intimidated former slaves in the South from exercising their civil and political rights.
Ku Klux Klan
200
The Northwest Ordinance or Louisiana Purchase?
Northwest Ordinance
200
TJ wanted New Orleans back from Spain, but Monroe went and did this.
Louisiana Purchase
200
Name the "Constitution" created by the Pilgrims to govern themselves.
Mayflower Compact
200
Violence is the answer, says this abolitionist. He took part in Bleeding Kansas and attacked the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry in an attempt to arm slave revolts. He was then executed.
John Brown
200
Lincoln was hesitant to attack the South first. Fortunately, the South attacked first here.
Fort Sumter
200
These laws in the South sought to maintain the pre-Civil War social hierarchy between whites and blacks.
Black Codes
300
Dred Scott case or 14th Amendment?
Dred Scott
300
Maine became a free state because of this compromise.
Missouri Compromise
300
What was the outcome of the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
Divided the South into military districts; procedures for readmission to the Union including a suffrage provision in Southern state constitutions
300
This pamphlet was published in 1776 and inspired American colonists to seek independence from Great Britain. Also, name its author.
Common Sense, Thomas Paine
300
Name 2 slave states that did not secede from the Union.
Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, Kentucky
300
This organization was created by the federal government to assist former slaves with literacy, food, clothing, medical care, etc.
Freedmen's Bureau
400
Republican Party or Democratic-Republican Party?
Democratic-Republican Party
400
The Compromise of 1850 weighed in on what to do with the land acquired after this war.
Mexican-American War
400
This law granted 160 acres of land to Western settlers for a small fee, on the condition they live on the land for five years.
Homestead Act
400
An escaped slave turned abolitionist, he wrote an influential autobiography and recruited black men to join the Union during the Civil War.
Frederick Douglass
400
This battle, in addition to the Emancipation Proclamation, prevented European powers from supporting the South.
Antietam
400
This Vice President became Lincoln's successor after he was assassinated. He pardoned Confederate military leaders.
Andrew Johnson
500
Emancipation Proclamation or Gettysburg Address?
Emancipation Proclamation?
500
A. Virginia
B. South Carolina
C. Georgia
500
Name all the parts of the Compromise of 1850.
California=free state, Mexican Cession land=popular sovereignty, Washington DC bans slave trade, Fugitive Slave Act
Also, drew boundary between New Mexico and Texas, and the New Mexico would be free territory (which made pro-slavery Texans mad). Texas would be paid $10M for land taken from them.
500
This politician loved popular sovereignty and therefore authored the Kansas-Nebraska Act. It would trip him up in a debate with Lincoln.
Stephen Douglas
500
This crisis in the 1830's set the stage for Southern secession. Andrew Jackson would respond with the threat of military force.
Nullification Crisis
500
Lincoln proposed that Southern states could be readmitted the Union if ___% male voters took loyalty oaths.
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