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100
He hoped to call upon the slaves to rise and establish a black free state
Who is John Brown
100
This was the main reason why so many people fled Ireland
What is the potato famine
100
Lincoln declared from the outset of the Civil War that
What is the war was being fought to preserve the Union (not slavery)
100
This caused California to want admission to the Union as a free state, resulting in a political crisis
What is the California Gold Rush
100
This invention revived and expanded slavery
What is the cotton gin
200
He proposed that the question of slavery in the Kansas-Nebraska territory be decided by popular sovereignty
Who is Stephen Douglas
200
The sentiment of fear and opposition to open immigration is called
What is nativism
200
When it was issued in 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation declared free only those slaves in
What is in the Confederacy
200
This idea the believed in the self-determination of people in any given territory
What is popular sovereignty
200
This caused the most controversy in the Compromise of 1850
What is the new Fugitive Slave Law
300
She was one of the leaders of the modern women's movement
Who are Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott Susan B. Anthony
300
This political party was anti Catholic, anti immigrant, pro-American
What is the Know-Nothing Party
300
This was set up to provide education that would help close the gap between blacks and whites, provide food, clothing, and medical care to slave refugees, and settle former slaves with forty-acres tracts confiscated from Confederates
What is the Freedmen's Bureau
300
This was the percentage of white southerners who owned slaves
What is 25%
300
This showed that the passions over slavery were becoming dangerously inflamed and violent in both North and South
What is the caning of Charles Sumner
400
He was the "father of the factory system"
Who is Samuel Slater
400
This glorified the traditional role of women as homemakers
What is the cult of domesticity
400
The official charge that the House of Representatives used to impeach President Johnson was that he
What is he violated the Tenure of Office Act by dismissal of Secretary of War Stanton
400
Name ONE state in the "Black Belt"
What are Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana
400
The main purpose of these was to ensure a stable and subservient labor supply
What are Black Codes
500
He attempted to install Maximilian on the Mexican throne in clear violation of the Monroe Doctrine
Who is Napoleon III
500
This landmark event happened in New York in 1848 where these immortal words were spoken: "we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal"
What is the Seneca Fall Convention
500
This guaranteed citizenship and civil rights
What is the 14th Amendment
500
In this major Supreme Court case, the court ruled that slaves were not a citizen, and therefore could not sue in federal court, because slaves were private property, they could not be taken into free or slave territories, and it declared that the Constitution protected a slave owners’ rights to property no matter where they resided.
What is Dred Scott
500
The wanton, heedless exploitation of natural resources by humans aggressively engaged in economic development and trade is more formally known as
What is ecological imperialism