Historical Figures
This former Mexican president was considered the "Napoleon of the West" and was in charge of the Mexican Army during the Mexican-American War.
Who is Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna?
This act, the culmination of the work of Christians such as William Wilberforce, ended enslaved labor in English colonies, but only after slave owners were compensated.
What is The Slavery Abolition Act of 1833?
The idea of the inevitability of the continued territorial expansion of the boundaries of the United States westward to the Pacific and beyond.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This was a constitutional crisis that took place in 1832–33 between the federal government and the state of South Carolina. The crisis was caused by a dispute over tariffs that protected northern industries at the expense of southern agriculture.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
The first American hanged for Treason
Who is John Brown?
South Carolina's wild-haired vice president, argued that states had the right to block federal laws.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
This state is annexed by the United States in 1845.
What is Texas?
These idealists were opposed to gradual, compensated emancipation and insisted on the immediate emancipation of slaves no matter what the consequences might be to the Southern economy, the slave owners, and the slaves themselves.
Who are Abolitionists?
A border conflict between the United States and Mexico that lasted from 1846 to 1848.
What is the Mexican-American War?
What is zero?
Nicknamed “Old Fuss and Feathers,” this general was immensely successful general in the Mexican American War.
Who is Winfield Scott?
The victory of Republican presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln and his promised tariff in the 1860 elections convinced this state's legislators that it was no longer in their state's interest to remain in the Union. They became the first state to secede.
What is South Carolina?
Hatians developed this twisted religion (a vile amalgamation of Catholicism, witchcraft, and African folk religion) which rejected their status as slaves and encouraged violence against Whites.
What is Voudo? (Or Voodoo)
A decisive battlement to protect Charleston harbor. South Carolina feared that it would be turned against Charleston and used to collect duty by force. Considered to be the first military action of the War Between the States.
What is Fort Sumter?
This religion, embraced by radical abolitionists, denies the Christian Trinity and draws its humanist conclusions from Enlightenment Libertinism rather than from the Scriptures.
What is Unitarianism?
This tall man with a "wizard's physiognomy" was elected the first and only President of the Confederate States of America in 1861.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
The year that Virginia, then the entire US bans the importation of slaves.
What is 1808?
This idea states have the right to declare federal laws null and void within their borders, protecting States from Government overreach.
What is Nullification?
At Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas, on May 24, 1856, John Brown led four of his sons and two other men in a midnight massacre of Missouri immigrants in that area. This event came to be known as ________
What is Bleeding Kansas?
Which two US officers stopped John Brown's murderous raid at Harper's Ferry and would later go on to serve as generals in the Confederate Army?
Who are Robert E. Lee and Jeb Stuart?
This enslaved preacher believed he was called by God to free his people, and he & his followers killed the Travis family while they slept. The rebels then marched through Southampton County Virginia, killing at least 55 white people in 1831 before they were defeated.
Who is Nat Turner?
This act was considered so unjust in its impact on consumers, agricultural interests, exporters, and especially the Southern cotton-producing states, that it became a major provocation and economic incentive to Southern secession
What is the Morrill Tariff?
The idea that the United States was formed by a voluntary agreement between the states, rather than the people is called ___________
What is Compact Theory?
Delegates from five New England states secretly debated the possibility of secession from the U.S at this event. The New England Federalist Party opposed the War of 1812 because it damaged the region's economy.
What is the Hartford Convention?
This Constitutional Amendment states, “The power not delegated to the United States by the constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively or to the people.”
What is the 10th Amendment?