He proposed the Kansas-Nebraska act, destroying the balance established by the Missouri Compromise
Who is Stephen A. Douglas
100
Name TWO states that made up the "black belt"
What are Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia
100
This was an informal network of homes where slaves could hide on their escape to freedom
What is the Underground Railroad
100
Texas won their independence as a result of the victory over the Mexican armies at the Battle of
What is San Jacinto
100
This idea addressed the issue of slavery by the self-determination of people in any given territory
What is popular sovereignty
200
She wrote the famous book that Lincoln supposedly said started the war; it highlighted the cruelties of slavery
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe
200
This was the reason why most southerners did not own slaves
What is they couldn't afford to buy one
200
The most controversial aspect of the Compromise of 1850 was this
What is the Fugitive Slave Law
200
This glorified the traditional role of women as homemakers
What is the cult of domesticity
200
This event propelled most fence-sitting Northerners to be for the war when they originally were content to let the South leave
What is the South firing on Fort Sumter
300
Name ONE famous woman from the mid-nineteenth century women's rights movement
Who are Lucretia Mott, Susan B Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
300
The vast majority of southerners were part of this social class
What are subsistence farmers
300
This famous court case said that a slave is not a citizen, and therefore could not sue in federal court
What is the Dred Scott case
300
This was the main advantage the South had at the outset of the war
What are excellent military leaders or they didn't have to win the war, just outlast it.
300
The presidential election of 1824 was unique because
What is it was the first where the president failed to win a majority
400
He was considered the "father of the factory system" in the US
Who is Samuel Slater
400
This was the percentage of southerners who owned slave
What is 25%
400
From the outset, Lincoln said he was NOT fighting the war for this reason to free the slaves - but rather
What is to preserve the Union
400
This is defined as the wanton, heedless exploitation of natural resources by humans aggressively engaged in economic development and trade
What is ecological imperialism
400
This group of people hated slavery not because of moral reasons but because it destroyed the chances of free white workers to rise from wage-earning to self-employment
What are the Free Soilers
500
He wrote the "South Carolina Exposition" which outlined an argument for state's rights
Who is John C Calhoun
500
Name ONE way in which slaves resisted
What are slowing down the pace of work, running away, slave rebellions, and the breaking of tools
500
This was the proto-Civil War
What is Bleeding Kansas
500
Despite the war, settlers continued to travel west in part due to the passage of this Act
What is the Homestead Act
500
Lincoln used legally dubious methods including the declaration of martial law in Maryland and the deployment of Union troops in a local civil war in Missouri in order to do this