People in the Government
9th President of the United States
William Henry Harrison
American abolotionist/escaped slave/most renowned conductor of the underground railroad
Harriet Tubman
Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program that reflected his 3 major goals: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection
The Square Deal
Winfield Scott
Gave women the right to vote
19th Amendment
Military General in Mexican-American War/12th President of the United States
Zachary Taylor
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" author
Harriet Beecher Stowe
1st state to secede from the Union
South Carolina
The Caroline
A steamship that was attacked on the way to Canada
Amendments 13, 14, and 15 are known as what?:
The Reconstruction Amendments
Successor of President Taylor when he died also part of the Know-Nothing Party, which was anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic
Millard Filmore
The New England Emigrant Aid Company paid people to move to Kansas to make it a:
Free State
The main cause of the War of 1812 was:
Imprisonment of US Seamen
Helped establish trading with Japan
Matthew Perry
This Amendment Abolished Slavery
13th
Secretary of State under William Henry Harrison
Daniel Webster
Please provide a 3 solid facts about the Underground Railroad
hid slaves
helped slaves escape
conductors were both black and white abolitionists
This person assassinated President Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
A main cause of the Mexican-American War was intensified by the debate over:
slavery
This is the belief that people of the territory should choose if slavery should be legal:
Popular Sovereignty
Whig Candidate in 1844 election
Henry Clay
These 2 people are viewed as leaders of the Union:
Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant
The Compromise of 1850
What role would the Dred Scott decision have:
A) It opened the door to violence by encouraging pro-slavery groups
B) It divided the Democratic Party
C) It increased hostility towards slavery in the North by ruling that states could not legally ban slavery.
C
In the 1840s, which territorial dispute dominated American diplomacy and politics?
Oregon and Texas