Unit 4
What is the Compromise called when
Missouri would be a Slave State, but New England has a new state called Maine (free state) to balance
What is the Missouri Compromise/Compromise of 1820
What was a series of trails and safehouses; people enslaved in the South could find safe passage to North?
What is the Underground railroad?
Indian populations were assigned to live on tracts of land called reservations with strict boundaries
What was the Indian Reservation?
Who proposed the American System?
American System: Federally funded internal improvements like roads and canals, federal tariffs (taxes on imported goods), Second Bank of the United States (keep economy with national currency)
Who is Henry Clay?
What was composed of Northern Democrats and Whigs?
What is the Free Soil Movement?
Federal government granted huge swaths of land to railroad companies who would then build a transcontinental railroad
What was the Pacific Railroads Act?
What person’s eternal salvation was in hands of God alone, no amount of good work could contribute to or take away from redemption?
What is Calvinists?
IN 1854, Who
proposed territory be divided into two parts
Kansas Territory and Nebraska Territory; proposed that each territory would decide by popular sovereignty whether to allow slavery or not
Who is Senator Stephen Douglas?
Who was the editor of a black newspaper based in the South and fiercely editorialized against lynching and Jim Crow Laws?
Who is Ida B. Wells?