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20 years.
How many years did they have to wait before they could bring up the topic of outlawing slavery in congress?
100
36 latitude, 30 degrees longitude.
In the Missouri Compromise, any land south of these coordinates would be slave states, and any land north would be free states.
100
The Mexican War
When Texas wanted to break away from Mexico and become part of the US, Mexico said no and a war broke out. What was the name of the war?
100
Bleeding Kansas
The small civil war in Kansas between the jay-hawks and the Border Ruffians
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John browns raid on Harper's fairy
John brown and a couple other abolitionists went to the Harper's fairy armory and hoped slaves would join in and they would end slavery. The slaves did not join in and John Brown was killed
200
3/5 of a person.
How much of a person was an enslaved African American counted as?
200
Loyalty to one's own region or section of the country.
What is sectionalism?
200
The Wilmot Proviso
What is the name of the bill that Wilmot tried to make to make sure no slaves were settled on the new land?
200
The Republican Party
A party originated from the Wigs and was made to outlaw slavery
200
Lincolns speech at cooper-union college in 1859
A speech about outlawing slavery at the same day as John Browns raid on Harper's fairy
300
Closed the big fear of south of getting in the house of representatives.
How did making slaves 3/5 of a person impact the south?
300
Nullification Crisis.
South Carolina refused to pay the tariffs that the national government was imposing on them, so Andrew Jackson threatened to move an army into South Carolina.
300
The Compromise of 1850
What is the compromise that avoided conflict by making a North California and South California.
300
Dred Scott v.s. Sandiford
When slave Dred Scott was brought in a free state he sued for his freedom. This case was brought to the supreme court and they said Dred Scott could not be freed. They said slaves had no rights even in free states.
300
The election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln beat John Breckinridge, John Bell, and Stephen Douglas in the presidential election.
400
The Cotton Gin, invented by Eli Whitney.
Slaves were decreasing in number, especially in the south, because of the extremely hard to grow cotton, so there was not as much profit made. There was a new invented machine that separated cotton from the seeds. Name the invention and the inventor?
400
This is one of the greatest known slave revolts in history, and the most successful. This revolt killed over 60 whites in the plantation where this man worked.
What is the Nat Turner Slave Revolt, led by Nat Turner?
400
Uncle Tom's Cabin
What 1852 book that Harriet Beecher Stowe published to make people open their eyes and smell the coffee when it came to slavery.
400
The panic of 1887
When southerners went in panic because the slave economy was not doing well.
400
South Carolina secedes
They seceded because Abraham Lincoln won the presidential election and he might outlaw slavery.
500
Slaves could still be born from already existing slaves in the United States, and could be sold to other farmers or plantation owners.
Congress decided to stop slave imports from Africa in 1808. This didn't ban slavery, but it ceased importation of slaves from foreign countries. This encouraged the buying and selling of slaves in local stores. Why wasn't slavery stopped after this?
500
These groups of people who were strongly against slavery led revolts and protests against the south.
What is abolitionism?
500
Kansas - Nebraska Act
What is the act that senator Douglass wanted to make a railroad to cross Kansas and Nebraska territories and to make them slave states so they would allow the railroad
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The Lincoln Douglass debate.
When Abraham Lincoln ran against Stephen Douglass to be the Illinois senator in 1858. Douglass one but Lincoln gain respect because he spoke in every state not just in Illinois.
500
Fort Sumter
The first shots of the war in south Carolina.