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Missouri Compromise
Growth and Reform
100
The first governor of Maine.
Who is William King?
100
Kidnapping people and forcing them to work.
What is impressment?
100
First step after achieving statehood.
What is setting up a state government?
100
The urge to move west was called...
What is "Ohio Fever"?
100
Maine's new capital?
What is Augusta?
200
Asked Congress to pass the Embargo of 1808.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
To change, particularly a document.
What is amend?
200
The three branches of government in Maine.
What are executive, legislative, and judicial branches?
200
Decided the Maine border once and for all.
What is the Webster-Ashburton Treaty?
300
Went to Bowdoin College and studied literature and languages.
Who is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?
300
Approval
What is ratification?
300
Head of Maine's state legislative branch?
What is the governor?
300
Date Maine became a state.
What is March 15, 1820.
300
Boat hulls were made of this wood.
What is oak?
400
Lived in Montpelier in Thomaston, Maine. Was a commander in the Continental army.
Who was Henry Knox?
400
No established religion.
What is separation of church and state?
400
Two differences of Maine's constitution from Massachusetts' constitution.
What are no property qualifications for voting and no religious qualifications for voting?
400
Speaker of the House that wrote the Compromise.
Who is Henry Clay?
400
Law enforcing temperance passed in 1851.
What is the Maine Law?
500
Supported the Constitution because it would make the country stronger. Delegate to Constitutional Convention who was born in Maine.
Who is Rufus King?
500
"the way things were before the war"
What is status quo antebellum?
500
9,040 for and 769 against
What was the final vote on ratifying Maine's state constitution?
500
What still upset many Mainers about the Compromise?
What is the fact that they had come into the Union along with a slave state?
500
Slavery runs counter to the principle expressed in this line from the Declaration of Independence.
What is "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal"?