The rapid westward migration caused by the discovery of gold in California led directly to this compromise being made.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
100
In this area of early 19th-century America the plantation system was an important feature.
What is the south?
100
This Supreme Court case established the power of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
100
This republican won the election of 1860. He ran under the platform that slavery should not be allowed in the territories.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
This doctrine was issued to prevent further European colonization in the Caribbean region.
What is the Monroe Doctrine (1823)?
200
During the 1840's this fear caused many abolitionists to oppose the annexation of new western territory.
What is the fear of new slave states?
200
This act required citizens to catch and return runaway slaves which enraged many northerners because it forced them to support the slave system.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
200
This politician was disgusted with the ruling in the Dredd Scott case and publicly spoke out against it.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
He once said, "A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.”
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
This areas economy was based primarily on manufacturing and industry.
What is the North?
300
This term was first used to support westward expansion to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
300
This principle was proposed as a means of deciding the legalization of slavery in a new state.
What is popular sovereignty?
300
This Supreme Court decision ruled that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional because it violated the 5th Amendment.
What is the Dredd Scott Decision?
300
In 1858 a series of 7 debates were held between two men who were competing for the Illinois state senate. The main issue the two men debated was slavery.
What are the Lincoln-Douglas Debates?
300
This novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe spread compassion for slaves in the North and infuriated people in the South.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
400
These people favored territorial growth.
Who are expansionists?
400
This phrase was used to describe the clashes between proslavery and antislavery groups.
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
400
This Supreme Court decision upheld the Southern viewpoint that Congress could not pass a law depriving territorial residents of their property.
What is the Dredd Scott decision?
400
This President used a policy known as the spoils system to reward political supporters by providing them with government jobs.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
400
This state was the first to secede from the Union when President Lincoln was elected.
What is South Carolina?
500
This compromise ended the slave trade but not slavery in Washington D.C.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
500
This act written by Stephen Douglas was passed by Congress in 1854. It stated that a particular new territory would be entered into the Union according to the principle of popular sovereignty.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
500
This United States Supreme Court Justice tended to strengthen the power of the National Government.
Who is John Marshall?
500
This politician ran for the Northern Democrats in the 1860 presidential election and believed that popular sovereignty should decide the issue of slavery in the territories when they become states.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
500
This Massachusetts senator gave a speech on the senate floor in 1856 titled, "The Crime Against Kansas".