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IMPORTANT PEOPLE
IMPORTANT LOCATIONS
BACKGROUND FACTORS
BACKGROUND IDEAS
Crazies
100
Man who invented the cotton gin, making slavery more profitable
Who was Eli Whitney?
100
First Southern state to leave the Union
What was South Carolina?
100
Large Southern farms
What is plantation?
100
When opposing groups of the same country fight a war
What is a civil war?
100
led the raid on Harpers Ferry
What is John Brown?
200
Man elected President in 1860
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
Many escaping slaves used this to guide them to freedom when they traveled at night
What is the North Star
200
Tax on goods brought into the country from foreign lands
What is a tariff?
200
Nicname for Henry Clay
What is the "Great Compromiser"?
200
Secret political party in the 1850s
What is Know-nothings?
300
Slave who escaped from Maryland and became a famous abolitionist
Who is Fredrick Douglas
300
Henry Clay's home state
Kentucky
300
Political party formed in 1854
What is the Republican party?
300
Nickname for Stephen A. Douglas because of his size
What is the Little Giant?
300
Assassinated Abraham Lincoln
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
400
Harriet Tubman's nickname
Who is Moses?
400
Site of a famous raid on a federal arsenal
What is Harpers Ferry?
400
Newspaper started by Fredrick Douglas
What is the Liberator?
400
Idea that a state could outlaw or refuse to obey a law passed by Congress
What is Nullification?
400
Considered the worst President. He preceded Lincoln
Who is James Buchanan?
500
Black preacher who led a slave revolt in Virginia in 1831
Who is Nat Turner?
500
Area flooded by new Northern and Southern voterswhen it sought statehood
What is Kansas?
500
Bill that said slavery should be forbidden in all lands taken from Mexico
What is the Compromise of 1850?
500
Slaves were considered this by their owners
What is property?
500
South Carolinian Who led the nullification of crisis against Jackson in the 1830s
Who is John C. Calhoun