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Vocabulary
People
Things
Events
Wild Card
100
allowing people to decide
What is popular sovereignty
100
wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
What is Harriet Beecher Stowe
100
allowed Missouri (MO) to enter union as slave state
What is Missouri Compromise
100

The belief that the U.S. was destined to expand across the continent

Manifest Destiny

100
a person who dies for a great cause
What is martyr
200
a conflict between citizens of the same country
What is civil war
200

President who completed the Louisiana Purchase in 1803

What is Thomas Jefferson

200
required all citizens to return runaway slaves or be fined/imprisoned
What is Fugitive Slave Act
200

Expedition that explored the newly acquired Louisiana Territory

Lewis and Clark expedition

200

Forced journey of Native Americans to Oklahoma

Trail of Tears

300

The trail that settlers used to move west

The Oregon Trail

300

proposed five main points known as the Compromise of 1850

What is Henry Clay

300
name the state "Bleeding_________"
What is Kansas
300

War, partly provoked by Texas annexation, that led to the U.S. gaining the Southwest.

The Mexican-American War

300
first Republican president of the United States elected in 1860
What is Abraham Lincoln
400

Jackson's practice of giving government jobs to political supporters was known as this.

The Spoils System

400

Abolitionist who killed pro slavery people in Kansas as well as raided Harper's Ferry.

Who is John Brown

400

Name of the network that helped enslaved people escape to freedom.

The Underground Railroad

400
Name the attack: U.S. fort in Charleston Harbor was attacked by southern Confederates It was the beginning of the Civil War
What is Fort Sumter
400
a runaway
What is fugitive
500
states leaving the Union
What is secession?
500

President whose election represented a revolution of "the common man"

Andrew Jackson

500
*California admitted as free state (upset South) *Utah & New Mexico follow popular sovereignty *slave trade abolished in D.C. *pass Fugitive Slave Law (upset North)
What is Compromise 1850
500
Name the court case: *Dred Scott, a slave, sued for his freedom *supreme Court ruled Scott was still a slave and property *Constitution still protected slavery
What is Dred Scott Case
500

1803 supreme court case that established judicial review

Marbury v. Madison