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He established a colony of American settlers in Texas. This city, now the capital of Texas, was named in his honor.
Who is Stephen Austin?
100
African americans forced to do labor without pay. Most commonly found in the south.
What is slavery?
100
The placing of the interest of one's own region ahead of the interest of the nation as a whole.
What is sectionalism?
100
A best-selling novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in 1852, that portrayed slavery as a great moral evil.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
100
to formally charge an official of misconduct in office.
What is to impeach?
200
A person in the political party formed in 1834 to oppose the policies of Andrew Jackson.
who is a whig?
200
A movement of many people to a region in which gold has been discovered.
What is The Gold Rush?
200
The nation established in 1836 when American settlers in the Mexican province of Tejas declared and fought for their independence, also commonly known at the time as the "Lone Star Republic."
What is the Republic of Texas?
200
Favoring the interest of native-born people over foreign-born people.
What is nativism?
200
The right to vote.
What is suffrage?
300
He supported Texas becoming part of the United States.
Who is Sam Houston?
300
The 19th belief that the United States would inevitably expand westward towards the Pacific Ocean and into Mexican territory.
What is Manifest Destiny?
300
The war in which American settlers fought for their independance from Mexico.
What is the war with Mexico?
300
A pre-Civil War set of measures designed to unify the nation and strengthen its economy by means of protective tariffs, a national bank, and such internal improvements as the developement of a transportation system.
What is the American System?
300
A machine for cleaning the seeds from cotton fibers, invented by Eli Whitney in 1793.
What is the cotton gin?
400
An african-american abolishionist who was a woman underground railroad "conductor."
Who is Harriet Tubman?
400
A gift of public land to an individual or organization.
What is a land grant?
400
A system of routes along which runaway slaves were helped to escape to Canada or to safe areas in the free states.
What is the Underground Railroad?
400
He assasinated Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
400
A person in the movement to end slavery.
What is an abolishionist?
500
He wrote the compromise of 1850.
Who is Henry Clay?
500
An agreement with Great Britain that gave the U.S. undisputed claim to the Pacific Northwest south of the 49th parallel (lattitude).
What is the Oregon Treaty of 1846?
500
an amendment to an 1846 military appropriations bill, proposing that none of the territory acquired in the War with Mexico would be open to slavery.
What is the Wilmont Proviso?
500
The discriminatory lwas passed throughout the post-Civil-War South which severly restricted African Americans' lives, prohibiting such activities as traveling without permits, carrying weapons, serving in juries, testifying against whites, and marrying whites.
What are Black Codes?
500
A political system in which a national government and constituent units, such as state governments, share power.
What is federalism?