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What year was the earliest year the issue of slavery was taken up in the U.S. Congress. Importation of slaves was banned in this year.
What is 1808?
100
Loyalty to one's own region or area of the country that is felt more closely than one's national loyalty.
What is Sectionalism?
100
The many secret routes to freedom where slaves risked much to travel was called this. The people who assisted slaves in finding their freedom were called conductors.
What is The Underground Railroad
100
1852 saw the publication of a blockbuster book by a Maine woman named Harriet Beecher Stowe. Although fiction,Stowe wrote about how badly slaves were treated in the South. Many in the North were awakened; many in the South were outraged.
What is "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
100
The economic recession that made many go into debt in 1857. It made businesses, including farms, more unstable.
What is The Panic of 1857?
200
What compromise assured that Southerners would get to count their slaves as inhabitants for the purposes of representation in The House of Representatives?
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
200
The 1832 crisis started when South Carolina legislators refused to pay tariffs, or taxes, on imported goods. President Andrew Jackson threatened to send troops and SC backed down. There was later a compromise but the anger against the North was clear.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
200
The U.S. went to war with Mexico in 1846 over several issues, including Texas. The U.S. won and gained much land in the west. Another result was that many U.S. military officers received training they would use in The Civil War. Name the war.
What is The Mexican War?
200
In 1854, Senator Stephen A. Douglas tried to get southern support for a railroad to Chicago. He wanted it to traverse the Kansas and Nebraska territories so got a law passed allowing citizens of any states there to vote whether they wanted slavery or not. This was based on popular sovereignty. Name the law.
What is The Kansas-Nebraska Act?
200
In 1858, a tall, gangly one-time congressman from Illinois faced off against a short, popular U.S. Senator for that senator's seat in congress. The speeches they gave together made both famous. The senator won but the tall man would be heard from shortly.
What is The Lincoln-Douglas Debates?
300
Eli Whitney's invention in 1793 was supposed to be a labor-saving device for southern farmers and perhaps lessen the need for slaves. Instead, it increased the "need".
What is the Cotton Gin?
300
In 1831, a Southeastern Virginia slave led a revolt against slave owners. At least 61 slave owners and their families were killed and a number of slaves were hanged. The revolt sent shock waves through the South. The leader's name was:
Who is Nat Turner?
300
After the war in 1846, a New England congressman proposed a law that would ban slavery in any territory taken from Mexico. It was voted down but the very idea angered Southerners. Name the proposal.
What is The Wilmot Proviso?
300
Pro and anti-slavery people rushed to Kansas which was about to become a state. After some whackings and hackings between them, a mini-war broke out. It cost over two hundred lives and showed how the issue of slavery was affecting people/
What is Bleeding Kansas?
300
He was a radical abolitionist who tried to start a slave revolt by attacking a U.S. gun warehouse and factory, or arsenal, at Harper's Ferry, Virginia in 1859. It didn't succeed but pushed both sides of the slavery debate toward war.
Who was John Brown?
400
The name of the Kentucky Congressman who crafted two national compromises to try to avoid conflict between the North and the South.
Who was Henry Clay?
400
Name some actions taken by slave owners in Virginia to stop further revolts after the bloody one in 1831
What are increasing night slave patrols, making sure slaves couldn't read or write, not allowing many slaves to off their farms without passes, raiding post offices and destroying any literature felt to be "abolitionist". There are others.
400
The Gold Rush in the west started in 1848. Within two years, a major western state petitioned congress to be admitted as a free state.
What is California?
400
In 1854, a new political party was formed out of those supporting Whigs and Free Soilers. This was an anti-slavery and free land party whose candidate for president lost in 1856 but whose new candidate won in 1860.
What is The Republican Party?
400
Four candidates for president ran in this election. John Breckinridge, John Bell and Stephen A. Douglas faced off against Abe Lincoln. Lincoln won in November with only 39.5% of the vote. On December 20 of that same year, South Carolina seceded from the Union.
What is The Presidential Election of 1860?
500
The compromise in 1820 that allowed Missouri enter as a slave state and Maine as a free state and set the 36'30" limit on where slavery could exist.
What is The Missouri Compromise?
500
The belief in banning slavery in all places in the U.S. Considered a radical movement by many, this belief was acted upon by Free African-Americans, escaped or freed slaves, White Quakers and others.
What is Abolitionism?
500
An aged Henry Clay cobbled together yet another compromise so a large western state could enter the U.S. The North got the free state and no slave trading in D.C. The South got a stronger Fugitive Slave law and popular sovereignty in Utah and New Mexico territories for slavery.
What is The Compromise of 1850?
500
In 1857 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the case of a slave who claimed that since he had been taken to live in free territory, he was free. The court disagreed and further said slaves had no rights at all. Southerners agreed and Northerners were outraged.
What is The Dred Scott Decision
500
He was perhaps the most famous abolitionist of his time. This escaped slave started his own newspaper, "The North Star", advised Lincoln on African-American participation in the war, became council general to Haiti and worked for the rights of all women.
What is Frederick Douglass?