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Manifest Destiny
Deepening Divisions
Slavery as a way of Life
Antebellum Georgia
The Election of 1860
100
The belief that it was the will of God that the United States expand it borders from coast to coast.
What is Manifest Destiny
100
The belief that the state's interest should take precedence over the interests of the national government.
What is States' Rights
100
This played an important role in the livesof slaves.
What is religion?
100
This is the period before the Civil War.
What is the Antebellum Era?
100
This political party was created in 1854 to oppose slavery.
What is the Republican Party?
200
This state was annexed in December of 1845 and became the 28th state of the United States.
What is Texas?
200
This was the movement to do away with slavery.
What is Abolition?
200
This person led the bloodiest slave revolt in American History.
Who is Nat Turner?
200
This was the backbone of Georgia's economy.
What is agriculture?
200
This person was nominated by the Northern Democrats to run for president.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
300
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War and gave the United States more than 500,000 square miles of land.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
300
This was adopted in 1820, where Maine entered the Union as a free state and Missouri entered as a slave state.
What is the Missouri Compromise
300
This required that runaway slaves be returned to their masters.
What is fugitive slave laws?
300
This was not an important element in the life of most antebellum Georgians.
What is Education?
300
This person was nominated by the Southern Democrats to run for president.
Who is John Breckenridge?
400
This country and the United States set the boundary between the United States and Canada along the 49th parallel.
What is Great Britain?
400
The Supreme Court case, in March 1857, that ruled that slaves were not citizens so therefore they could not sue the United States.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
400
The Underground Railroad.
What is network of roads, houses, river crossings, boats, wagons, woods, and streams that provided a trail of flight?
400
These were the two largest religious denominations in Georgia.
What is Methodist and Baptist?
400
This person received 1.9 million votes and was elected president in 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
500
In January of 1848, this person discoverd gold in California.
Who is John Marshall
500
The ability of the residents of an area to decide upon an issue, such as whether they would allow slavery.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
500
This person was perhaps the best known conductorof the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
500
The governor of Georgia from 1857 to 1865.
Who is Joseph E. Brown?
500
This country was formed by the southern states that seceded from the United States.
What is the Confederate States of America?