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Who was elected president of the United States in 1860 which caused many in the south to be angry?
Abraham Lincoln
100

In 1854, Congress passed a law that allowed settlers in these two territories to decide for themselves what to do about slavery. 

Kansas and Nebraska

100

The Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act all tried to settle what problem?

Slavery in certain territories 

100

Who created the cotton gin that exploded slavery in the South? 

Eli Whitney 

100

Teddy Roosevelt pushed for the construction of what canal? 

Panama Canal 

200
Who was vehemently against slavery and tried to start a rebellion at Harper's Ferry?
John Brown
200

The Compromise of 1850 divided the Mexican territory into Utah and which other state? 

New Mexico

200

Which discovery resulted in longer working hours and a new industry to boom?

Whale Oil

200

Which manufacturing industry employed mainly young women? 

Lowell Mills 

200

What was much of the South's economy based upon?

Agriculture (or farming.)

300

Who was the first nomination of the Free Soil party?

Martin VanBuren 

300

Where did the caning of Sumner take place?

The Senate

300
The Fugitive Slave Law required people to do what (even if they disagreed with slavery)?
Return runaway slaves to their owners.
300

What industry stops in the Compromise of 1850 in Washington D.C.?

The slave trade 

300

Who was the third president of the United States?

Thomas Jefferson

400

Who was known as the "Black Moses"

Harriet Tubman 

400
Name at least two places that runaway slaves on the Underground Railroad headed to.
The North, Canada, Caribbean, Mexico.
400
The Dred Scott decision was a blow to the abolitionist movement. Why?
The Supreme Court ruled that slaves were property, no matter where their owners took them.
400
Describe what popular sovereignty is.
The right of people to make political decisions for themselves.
400

Which explorer was coined the first to circumnavigate the world? 

Magellan 

500
Who escaped slavery and became a strong proponent of the Abolitionist movement, eventually having debates with Abraham Lincoln?

Fredrick Douglass 

500

Which two states were effected as a result of the Missouri Compromise of 1820?

Missouri and Maine

500

This book was published by Harriet Beecher Stowe to show the horrors of slavery in the South. 

Uncle Tom's Cabin

500

Which two people debated about slavery in 1858?

Lincoln and Douglass 

500

Which explorers first settled in Iceland?

Vikings