What was the idea that the nation was meant to spread to the pacific?
What is Manifest Destiny
100
Why did Stephen Douglas propose repealing the Missouri Compromise?
What is to allow two states in the Nebraska region- one free and one slave
100
Who was the enslaved minister who believed God had chosen him to bring his people of bondage? He and his accomplices went house to house, killing more than 50 white men, women, and children.
What is Nat Turner
100
What proposed that any territory the US gained from Mexico, "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist?"
What is Wilmot Proviso
200
What were the people trying to end slavery known as?
What is Abolitionists
200
What were TWO ways in which the fugitive slave act favored the slave catchers?
What is Slaves had no rights in court, financial incentive for commissioners
200
Who invented the cotton gin and popularized the use of interchangeable parts?
What is Eli Whitney
200
What change in voting allowed Jackson to win the election of 1828?
What is Change of voting requirements
200
What was the goal of the American Colonization Society?
What is Relocate slaves to Africa
300
What was the term for citizens of a new territory being allowed to decide for themselves if they want to permit slavery or not?
What is Popular Sovereignty
300
What was the main detail of the Missouri Compromise?
What is Senate decides to combine it's request with Missouri and voted to admit Maine as a free state, and Missouri as a slave state.
300
Who was the abolitionist who opposed slavery by abducting and murdering five pro-slavery settlers living near Pottawatomie Creek?
What is John Brown
300
Who was elected as the president of the Confederacy?
What is Jefferson Davis
300
What party was a group made up of anti-slavery Whigs and Democrats that opposed the spread of slavery onto the western territories.
What is Free-Soil party
400
What was the practice of appointing people to government jobs based on party loyalty and support?
What is Spoils System
400
What were THREE northern views on slavery?
What is Would divide the nation
Slaves would take away their jobs
Threat to existing social system
Morally wrong
400
Who developed the first steamboat, which made water travel much faster and more reliable?
What is Robert Fulton
400
How did John Quincy Adams win the disputed election of 1824?
What is Even though Jackson won the popular and electoral vote, he did not win the majority needed, so the House of Representatives voted Adams in
400
What was Lincoln's law for anyone supporting secession would be arrested and held without a trial?
What is Martial Law
500
Who were agents that contracted with the Mexican government to bring in a certain number of residents in exchange for large grants of Texas land?
What is Empersarios
500
The dispute over what fort started the Civil War?
What is Fort Sumter
500
What was the book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that may have been the cause of the Civil War?
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin
500
What was Lincoln's problem with Crittenden's Compromise?
What is Would acknowledge that slavery has equal rights with liberty, and surrenders all that they have contended for.
500
What declared that Douglas accepted the Dred Scott decision, but argued that the people could still keep out slavery by refusing to pass the laws needed to regulate and enforce it?