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Slavery
States' Rights
Manifest Destiny
Compromise of 1850
Important Individuals
100
The section of the United States that phased out slavery after the Revolutionary War
What is the North?
100
The idea that a state can cancel out a federal law.
What is nullification?
100
The man who helped coin the phrase manifest destiny.
Who is John O' Sullivan?
100
This state entered the Union as a free state.
What is California?
100
The Great Compromiser, he came up with this plan as a way to stave off sectional strife
Who is Henry Clay?
200
The number of slaves freed at the end of the Civil War.
What is about 4 million?
200
The state that threatened to secede from the Union almost 30 years before the Civil War. It would be the first to secede with the election of Lincoln.
What is South Carolina?
200
A war between the United States and its neighbor that gave us much of today's southwestern portion of our country.
What is the Mexican War?
200
Allowed bounty hunters to enter the North to help slave owners reclaim their "property"
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
200
This Northern senator tried to unite Americans with his words and spoke in favor of the compromise
Who is Daniel Webster?
300
The invention that made slavery such an essential part of the South's economy.
What is the cotton gin?
300
Two of the founding fathers who championed states' rights when the wrote the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions.
Who are Jefferson and Madison?
300
After the discovery at Sutter's Mill in 1848, people flocked Here from all over the world.
What is California?
300
The slave trade would end, but slavery would stil be legal here.
What is Wasington D. C.?
300
This South Carolinian wanted no compromise and for the South's institutions to be honored.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
400
Three of the South's leading cash crops ... one of which was dubbed "king"
What are cotton, tobacco & rice?
400
Jackson's first vice president who later became a leading voice of states' rights, the South, and slavery
Who is John C. Calhoun?
400
The people would be able to vote on the slavery issue in these two places.
What New Mexico and Utah?
400
This "Little Giant" reintroduced the ideas of the compromise as separate legislation to get it passed.
Who is Stepeh A. Douglas?