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100

Idea that State governments should have as much power as the federal government

State’s Rights

100

Proposed by Henry Clay Stated that: California would join the Union as a Free State. The slave trade would be outlawed in Washington D.C. Fugitive Slave Law was passes. Runaway slaves would now to be legally returned to their owners



The Compromise of 1850 

100

what is it when you are forced to work for somebody

What is Slavery

100

Abraham Lincoln

100

A fight between to sides of the nation  

what is The Civil War

200

Main cause of the Civil War Almost all Southerners supported______ Most Northerners opposed ___.

Slavery

200

Missouri applied to join the Union as a slave state this would upset the balance of slave and free states

Missouri Compromise of 1820

200

Something used to protect states from foreign competition

What is Tariffs

200

after living in slave free states when he moved Supreme Court decision that ruled _______ (a slave) was not a U.S. citizen

What is Dredd-Scott

200

was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War.

what is Battle of Gettysburg

300

a tax on imported goods, the South/Texans wanted low tariffs to import cheap manufactured goods and keep prices low

Tariffs

300

Harriet Beecher Stowe published a book about the evals of slavery. 

1852, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

300

loyalty to one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole.

what is Sectionalism

300

Arthur of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

What is Harriet Beecher Stowe

300

was the bombardment of ____ _____ near Charleston, South Carolina by the South Carolina militia. It ended with the surrender by the United States Army, beginning the American Civil War.

what is Fort Sumter

400

Loyalty to the interests of one’s own region or section of the country, rather than the nation as a whole (Ex: North vs. South), People in the south felt more loyalty to their states because of “Southern Traditions”

Sectionalism

400

May 1854, Opened up new land for settlement, Allowed people in the territory to vote on slavery, 1861, Kansas was voted a free state


1854, Kansas-Nebraska Act

400

Something that is associated with freedom 

Rights 

400

Confederate general from Texas sent to slow down the march of General William T.Sherman through Georgia

What is john bell hood

400

The battle of ____ ____, on September 8, 1863, turned back one of several Union

what is Battle of Sabine Pass

500

(This is a bonus question) What sound dose a cow make?

MOOO!

500

Abolitionist John Brown and his followers seized a federal arsenal at ___ ____, Virigina

Harpers Ferry

500

a settlement of differences by mutual concessions; an agreement reached by adjustment of conflicting or opposing claims, principles, etc., by reciprocal modification of demands.

what is a Compromise

500


Who is John Wilkes Booth

500

Two Confederate cottonclads, CS Bayou City and the CS Neptune commanded by Leon Smith, sailed from Houston to Galveston in an effort to engage the Union Fleet in Galveston Harbor, which consisted of USS Clifton, USS Harriet Lane, USS Westfield, USS Owasco, USS Corypheus and USS Sachem.

What is Battle of Galveston