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This 19th-century movement blamed alcohol for the era's "social ills" and successfully lobbied for the "Maine Law," the first statewide ban on spirits.
What is the Temperance Movement?
What is Manifest Destiny?
This was a famous book about the horrors of slavery by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It enlightened and angered the North on slavery.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
A term that came to define the first half of the 1800's, it describes how states put their own interests ahead of national interests, which divided the North and South.
What is sectionalism?
What two states did the compromise of 1850 establish the border between
What is Texas and Mexico?
This system of incarceration, popularized in Pennsylvania, focused on "penitence" through total silence and solitary confinement to reform the soul.
What is the Penitentiary System (Prison System)?
This geographic feature, which the U.S. insisted was the border of Texas, became the primary justification for the Mexican-American War.
What is the Rio Grande?
To maintain the balance of power in the Senate, Missouri joined as a slave state while this state was admitted as a free state.
What is Maine?
The Dred Scott decision was a controversial court case surrounding the enforcement of ________ Laws?
What is Fugitive Slave?
The people of New Mexico and Utah advocated for __________, which means that the people would decide whether issues like slavery should be allowed/disallowed in their state
What is Popular Sovereignty?
a sentiment that echoed the moral urgency of this 1830s religious movement that fueled nearly every social reform of the era.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This 11th U.S. President, a staunch believer in Manifest Destiny, campaigned on the promise to acquire Oregon and Texas, eventually leading the U.S. into war with Mexico.
Who is James K. Polk?
This means "giving the people the right to choose", in this case voting whether or not to legalize slavery in their territories.
What is popular sovereignty?
"Terrorist" in the South and "Patriot" in the North who led a violent slave revolt on Harper's Ferry, Virginia; was hanged for his crimes.
Who is John Brown?
He was the radical editor of The Liberator who famously declared, "I will not equivocate—I will not excuse—I will not retreat a single inch—and I will be heard!"
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
He was the radical editor of The Liberator who famously declared, "I will not equivocate—I will not excuse—I will not retreat a single inch—and I will be heard!"
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
This political party, formed in 1848, ran on the platform of "Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Labor, and Free Men," opposing the expansion of slavery into the new Cession.
What is the Free Soil Party?
This specific line of latitude was established as the boundary for slavery in the remainder of the Louisiana Territory.
What is 36 30'?
This name was given to the territory where rival pro-slavery and anti-slavery governments led to a localized civil war and guerrilla violence.
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
This was a famous Supreme Court case that ruled slaves do not have rights that white people are obligated to honor.
What was Dred Scott v. Sanford?
Harriet Tubman conducted a secret system to lead escaping slaves from the South into the free North, known as this.
What is the underground railroad?
This 1846 proposal, which sought to ban slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico, failed in the Senate but ignited a firestorm of sectional tension.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
This compromise delayed a civil war by agreeing to bring in California as a free state, while the South gets a strong fugitive slave law passed.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This 1854 Act effectively repealed the Missouri Compromise by opening territories north of 36, 30' to the possibility of slavery.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
A former slave and powerful orator, he published the autobiography Narrative of the Life of [Himself] to prove the intellectual capabilities of Black Americans.
Who is Frederick Douglass?