The belief that it was the mission of our country to spread the ideas of democracy and Christianity from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
100
The 4 million people who made up the lowest class in the southern social ladder.
What are slaves?
100
The issue that most believe started the civil war; the south was in support, but the north was not in support.
What is slavery?
100
Another term for uprising, many blacks and whites attempted to lead others in an fight against slavery to end the institution once and for all.
What is a rebellion (see Prosser, Vesey, Turner, and Brown)?
100
The compromise of 1820 that as states entered the union, one would enter as a free-state and the other as a slave-state to maintain the balance; it also stated that slavery was no longer allowed above the 36*20' latitude.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
200
In December 1845, it became the 28th state of the United States after years of conflict with Mexico.
What is Texas?
200
The wealthy owners of large plantations who made up less than one percent of the southern population but were at the top of the southern social ladder.
What are planters?
200
The belief that states had the right to rule themselves, and that the interests of the federal government were less important.
What is states' rights?
200
The laws that took nearly all rights away from slave; they could not testify in court against a white person, disrespect a white person, carry a weapon, etc.
What are slave codes?
200
The slave who fought for his freedom in the Supreme Court of the United States in 1857, but lost when the justices declared slaves were not citizens and could not fight in a court of law.
Who was Dred Scott?
300
The war won by the United States that won us Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, most of New Mexico and parts of Wyoming and Colorado.
What is the Mexican-American War?
300
The members of society that typically lived in towns and cities that included brokers, teachers, doctors, ministers, publishers, lawyers and artisans.
What is the Merchant class?
300
The belief by the people in a given region that their ideas and interests are better or more important that those in other regions.
What is sectionalism?
300
Harriet Tubman helped many blacks escape to freedom using a network of roads, houses, boats and wagons. to carry blacks north.
What is the Underground Railroad?
300
Lincoln accused her, the writer of Uncle Tom's Cabin, of starting the Civil War.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
400
The valuable resource that was discovered in California in 1849.
What is gold?
400
These independent farmers made up the largest group of white southerners.
What are Yeoman farmers?
400
This issue boils down to southern agriculture versus northern industry.
What is economy?
400
After the election of Lincoln in 1860, this state led secession, and other states followed, also leaving the Union.
What is South Carolina?
400
What compromise allowed California to enter the union as a free state, although there was NOT a slave state admitted at the same time (instead it offered southerners the Fugitive Slave Act).
What is the Compromise of 1850?
500
The treaty that ended the Mexican-American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
500
These southerners rank right above slaves in the southern social ladder.
Who are free blacks?
500
An issue pertaining to taxes on imported goods.
What are tariffs?
500
Although this man resisted southern secession, he was appointed the vice president of the Confederate States of America.
Who was Alexander Stephen?
500
The Act that changed the Missouri Compromise, allowing new states popular sovereignty, or the right to choose whether or not they wanted to join the Union as free-states or as slave-states.