During the Mexican War, the U.S. and Mexico fought over where the southern border of Texas should be. Mexico thought it should have been the Nueces River (more north), but the U.S. thought it should be THIS river (more south). After 2 years of fighting and more than 10,000 Tennesseans volunteering, the U.S. won!
What is the Rio Grande River?
100
This word means "before the war" in Latin. It's used to describe the 40 years in TN before the Civil War.
What is "Antebellum?"
100
The U.S. was divided amoung these 2 "types" of states. This made for many disagreements between the North and the South.
What are free states and slave states?
100
THIS is when the Civil War began.
What is 1861?
100
This Tennessean became president after Andrew Jackson?
Who was James K. Polk?
200
This agreement was reached when Southerners agreed to support California as a free state and Northerners had to return slaves to their owners in the South if they escaped to the North (Fugitive Slave Act).
What is the Compromise of 1850?
200
These were known as the 3 "States" of Tennessee.
What are East, Middle, and West TN?
200
He was elected president in 1860. He was a republican who did not want to abolish slavery, but did not want it to spread. He was president during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
In 1852, THIS was published by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
200
A __________ is when 2 disagreeing sides give up something in order to meet a mutual agreement.
What is a compromise?
300
This man was born a black slave in Maryland. As a small child, he was sold away from his mother. He was badly abused and mistreated as a slave. One day, his owner sent him to work in Baltimore, where he learned to read and write. He also learned about freedom. He escaped to Massachusetts and joined several antislavery groups. He wrote a book about his life and it became a best seller! He died at the age of 77.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
300
He built the Capitol building in Nashville. It is still used today. He wanted it to look like the Parthenon in Greece. He didn't see it completely finished and is buried in a wall of the capitol.
Who was William Strickland?
300
This state seceded from the Union one month after Lincoln was elected president.
What is South Carolina?
300
In 1804, THIS starts operating in Pennsylvania to lead runaway slaves to freedom. It had "conductors" such as Harriet Tubman.
What is the Underground Railroad?
300
THIS city finally became the TN state capitol, instead of Murfeesboro.
What is Nashville?
400
He was a slave who took his owner to court because he felt he should be free since he lived with his owner in a free state. In 1857, the Supreme Court ruled that he was still a slave.
Who was Dred Scott?
400
Steam ________ that ran on tracks were the newest type of transportation. They connected Nashville to Chattanooga and by 1861, TN had more than 1,200 miles worth of tracks.
What are trains?
400
In February of 1861, representatives from SC, GA, FL, AL, MI, LA, and TX met to form a new country called ________________. They chose Jefferson Davis as their president.
What are The Confederate States of America?
400
In 1845, Texas entered the Union as a _________ state.
What is a slave state?
400
THIS railroad is significant because it was built entirely in TN.
What is the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad?
500
This man led a group of men, including 5 blacks, to Harper's Ferry, VA to capture a storehouse full of guns and amunition in which they planned to give to slaves to attack their owners. Federal troops captured him and he was sent to prison.
What is John Brown?
500
During the antebellum period, these people had only a few more rights than slaves. They could not vote. If they were married, they could not own property. They were expected to spend their time taking care of their family and home.
Who are women?
500
The Civil War began when THIS fort was attacked by Confederate soldiers in South Carolina on April 12, 1861.
What is Fort Sumter?
500
In THIS year, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders to U.S. General Ulysses S. Grant in VA, bringing an end to the Civil War.
What is 1865?
500
THIS happened to TN's population during the antebellum period.
What increased in size (105,000 people to 1,000,000 people) in 60 years?