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This diplomatic scandal during John Adams’s presidency involved French agents demanding bribes from American envoys.
What is the XYZ Affair?
This political party emerged in the mid to late 1850s opposing the expansion of slavery into western territories.
What is the Republican Party?
She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
This is Mr. Krab's first name.
What is Eugene?
I was asleep, now I'm feeling like Tony the Tiger (the first time).
What is the First Great Awakening?
This 1794 domestic uprising challenged federal authority until Washington personally marched troops to suppress it.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
This term refers to the idea that the people of a territory should vote directly on whether to allow slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
This describes a significant reason the Whig party collapsed in the 1850s.
What is divisions over the slavery issue?
This is the only food that never spoils.
What is honey?
Elites, grunts, and jackals will meet you at the halfway point.
What is the Halfway Covenant?
This 1763 event forbade settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains (to avoid conflicts with Native Americans), angering colonists hungry for expansion.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This violent series of clashes in Kansas in the 1850s symbolized the breakdown of compromise over slavery.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This raid intensified Southern fears of a Northern plot to incite slave rebellions and pushed them closer to secession.
What is John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry?
These are three songs from Taylor Swift's latest album "The Life of a Showgirl."
What are (???)
Spooky waterway
What is the Erie Canal?
Originally from South Carolina, this vice president of Andrew Jackson led the effort to nullify the Tariff of Abominations.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
This describes one of the parts of Chief Justice Taney's decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford.
What is (ex. federal gov't can't control slavery in new states, Scott remains a slave, etc.)?
These are the 5 components of the Compromise of 1850.
1. California as a free state
2. New Mexico and Utah = popular sovereignty
3. Abolished slave trade in D.C.
4. Texas gains $10 million for territory loss
5. 1850 Fugitive Slave Act
This is currently the only NFL team with one win.
Who are the Tennessee Titans?
A yeti must now pay for imported goods.
What is the Tariff of Abominations?
This 1670s conflict between New England colonists and several Native nations, led in part by Metacom, devastated many towns and ended major Native resistance in the region.
What is King Philip's War?
This term describes the North’s fear that a small group of slaveholders controlled the federal government and sought to expand slavery everywhere.
Preston Brooks caned this guy in the middle of the Senate floor.
Who is Charles Sumner?
These are all the characters in the board game Clue.
Who are Colonel Mustard, Miss Scarlet, Mr. Green, Mrs. Peacock, Mrs. White, and Professor Plum?
A songbird wants to re-establish trade with England.
What is Jay's Treaty?
This 1831 religiously inspired slave rebellion in Virginia led to harsh new restrictions on African Americans.
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
Stephen Douglas coined this term, which refers to how new states could effectively block slavery by refusing to pass laws protecting it.
What is the freeport doctrine?
This compromise proposal in 1860 attempted to extend the Missouri Compromise line westward but failed to stop secession.
What are the Crittenden Compromises?
Besides Millie Bobbie Brown (who plays Eleven), this is the name of an actor/actress in Stranger Things and the character they portray.
What is (???)
I found him! He was wearing red and white stripes, and was writing something about transcendentalism...
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?