The term Southern whites often refer to Slavery as.
What is "Peculiar Institution"?
100
Two famous transcendentalist, with many famous quotes.
Who are Emerson and Thoreau?
100
The present day states that were the Oregon Territory.
What are Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.
100
The Civil War started here.
What is Fort Sumter?
100
It defined the requirements of Citizenship.
What is The Fourteenth Amendment?
200
Led the only large-scale slave insurrection in the 19th century.
Who is Nat Turner?
200
The present day city created by the migration of the Mormons after Joseph Smith's death.
What is Salt Lake City, Utah.
200
In the Election of 1844, both Henry Clay and Martin Van Buren tried to avoid taking a stand on this controversial issue.
What is the annexation of Texas?
200
The Slave States that remained in the Union.
What are Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware.
200
Former Whigs, who were Southern Republicans.
What are Scalawags?
300
White Southerners believed they represented a way of life including chivalry, leisure, and elegance .
What is Cavalier Myth?
300
A network of charitable activities in an effort the help the handicapped.
What is The Benevolent Empire?
300
The US agreed to pay Mexico $15 million, and got the territories of California and Texas.
What is The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
300
Claimed to free all Slaves in the Confederacy
What is Emancipation Proclamation?
300
One of the most effective organizations, led by Nathan Bedford Forrest.
What is the KKK
400
The two slaveholding states that contained more than half of the free African Americans (in the slave states) by the start of the Civil War.
What is Virginia and Maryland.
400
Created when William Lloyd Garrison attracted a large group of followers throughout the north. Membership mushroomed.
What is the New England Antislavery Society?
400
Created in late 1840s, it signaled the inability of the existing parties to contain the political passions slavery was creating.
What is the Free Soil Party?
400
The War created many more opportunities for them.
What are Women?
400
in the election, Democrats exacted several pledges from the republicans in addition to withdraw of the troops.
What is The Compromise of 1877?
500
It retained some African words, but drew primarily from English.
What is Pidgin?
500
Africans escaped from Cuban slavery. the antislavery position was argued by John Quincy Adams. The Supreme court declared these Africans free in 1841 and antislavery groups funded their way back to Africa.
What is The Amistad Case?
500
Taney argued Dred Scott could not bring his case to federal Court because of this.
What is he was not a citizen?
500
The bloodiest single day battle, and a Union Victory
What is Antietam?
500
His message was to win respect from the white population.