a policy of favoring native inhabitants as opposed to immigrants
What is Nativism?
100
A law coming from the Compromise of 1850, that provided for the return of escaped slaves to their owners.
What is The Fugitive Slave Law?
100
He was the primary author of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the senator of Illinois in 1858.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
100
a series of violent political confrontations involving anti-slavery supporters and pro-slavery supporters, that took place in the Kansas Territory and the neighboring towns of the state of Missouri between 1854 and 1861.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
100
Which lunch period does Mr. Sewell first manage?
What is 4th period?
200
A group of powerful senators from the south formed by Stephen Douglas.
What is "The F Street Mess"?
200
Laws passed by Northern states forbidding the imprisonment of escaped slaves
What are Personal Liberty Laws?
200
A infamous abolitionist who killed five pro-slavery settlers at the Pottawatomie Massacre.
Who is John Brown?
200
The Kansas-Nebraska Act ended this party.
What is the Whig Party?
200
After March, how many children will Mrs. Hardin have?
What is 2?
300
a pre-Civil War doctrine asserting the right of the people living in a newly organized territory to decide by vote of their territorial legislature whether or not slavery would be permitted there
What is popular sovereignty?
300
An act created by Stephen Douglas and Andrew Butler to further the construction of a transcontinental railroad. It reopened the issue of slavery.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
300
A South Carolina senator in 1824, who was an impassioned advocate of slavery, and a member of "The F Street Mess". He was a co-author of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Who is Andrew Butler?
300
A political party formed in order to give political expression to Nativism. It was sometimes referred to as the "Know-Nothing Party"
What is the American Party?
300
Which pregnant teacher wears glasses on a daily basis?
Who is Mrs. Jackson?
400
Violent Missouri residents led by Senator David Atchison into Kansas to vote for their proslavery representative.
What are "border ruffians"?
400
1820 agreement calling for the admission of Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state and outlawing slavery in future states to be created north of 36 degrees 30'N latitude.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
400
The 14th president who supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and who pushed it through Congress.
Who is Franklin Pierce?
400
"Bloody Kansas" was a prelude to this war..
What is the Civil War?
400
What is the name of Mr. Howland's signature dance that resembles being in a store?
What is "The Shopping Cart"?
500
The railroad that Stephen Douglas wanted to extend from Illinois to California, as part of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
500
A series of five bills that were intended to stave off sectional strife, and whose goal was to deal with the spread of slavery to territories in order to keep northern and southern interests in balance.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
500
He won 33% of the popular vote of the Republican Party in 1856.
Who is John C. Fremont?
500
The land west of the Mississippi River that Stephen Douglas wanted to extend the transcontinental railroad over. It is now referred to as the "High Plains".
What is the "Great American Desert"
500
What is the upcoming event on February 7th, at KAC?