Allowed Maine to join as a free state and Missouri as a slave state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
100
Fought war versus Mexico.
Who is James K. Polk?
100
Great Compromiser.
Who is Henry Clay?
100
Invention that led to the expansion of slavery.
What is the Cotton Gin?
200
Wrote the anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin".
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
200
Strengthened the Fugitive Slave Law and outlawed the slave trade in Washington, D.C.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
200
Nullification Crisis.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
200
Father of Nullification
Who is John C. Calhoun?
200
Name for people opposed to slavery.
Who are abolitionists?
300
Published the anti-slavery newspaper "The Liberator".
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
300
Conflict between South Carolina and the Federal government over a tariff.
What is the Nullification Crisis (1832)?
300
First Republican elected President.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
300
Chief Justice during the early 1800s who strengthened the Federal Government.
Who is John Marshall?
300
Name for people opposed to the expansion of slavery.
Who are Free Soilers?
400
Escaped slave who gave lectures on the evils of slavery and published "The North Star".
Who is Frederick Douglas?
400
Popular Sovereignty allowed in territories on the issue of slavery north of 36 degrees 30 minutes north latitude in the former Louisiana Purchase territory.
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
400
First Democrat elected President.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
400
Promoted Popular Sovereignty as a method to decide the issue of the expansion of slavery.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
400
Name for the system of safe houses that allowed slaves to escape to the North.
What is the Underground Railroad?
500
Known as the Moses of her people who helped slaves escape to the North.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
500
Stated that slaves are not citizens, but property.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
500
First non-elected President.
Who is John Tyler?
500
South Carolina congressman who gained fame by beating Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with his cane.
Who is Preston Brooks?
500
The name given to whites who patrolled the roads looking for runaway slaves.