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This amendment sought to prohibit slavery in areas obtained from Mexico.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
100
This slave rebellion created a climate of fear throughout the South.
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
100
This war hero won the election of 1840 with the slogan Tippecanoe and Tyler Too.
Who is William Henry Harrison?
100
The majority of southern whites were members of this non-slave holding group.
What is the yeomen?
100
Attachment to this profitable crop inhibited the development of factories in the South.
What is cotton?
200
This bill was introduced by Stephen Douglas as a way to gain southern support for a transcontinental railway. It reopened the question of popular sovereignty.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
200
This abolitionist was hung for his role in the raid on the armory at Harper's Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
200
This party ran in opposition of the extension of slavery in the election of 1860.
What is the republican party?
200
This line was to be the new border between british territory and US territory in Oregon.
What is the 49th parallel?
200
This abolitionist senator of Massachusetts was caned on the floor of the Senate. Honor culture indeed!
Who is Charles Sumner?
300
Henry Clay sought to put the nation on a firm footing with this agreement admitting California to the Union as a free state, allowing Mexico and Utah to choose their own paths, abolishing the slave trade in DC, and enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
300
Harriet Beecher Stowe penned this abolitionist classic.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
300
This democratic candidate in the election of 1852 bridged the sectional divide to win both the North and South decisively on a platform of popular sovereignty.
Who is Franklin Pierce?
300
This part of of the south wavered over secession because of economic ties to the North.
What is the Upper South?
300
This Supreme Court justice ruled in the Dred Scott case that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
Who is Roger Taney?
400
This president decided to support the pro-slavery Lecompton Constitution because he supported popular sovereignty.
Who is James Buchanan?
400
William Lloyd Garrison published this abolitionist newspaper.
What is the Liberator?
400
This candidate in the 1856 election was the first republican to run for president. He lost to James Buchanan.
Who is John Fremont?
400
After Lincoln proclaimed a rebellion and called up a militia, states in this region seceeded from the union.
What is the Upper South?
400
This General's ineptitute contributed to overwhelming US victory in the Mexican War.
Who is Santa Ana?
500
This last ditch effort to prevent secession proposed restoring the Missouri Compromise, a constitutional amendment protecting slavery, and compensation for runaway slaves.
What is the Crittendon Compromise?
500
Feminists such as Elisabeth Cady Stanton modeled this early proclamation of women's rights on the Declaration of Independence.
What is the Seneca Falls Declaration?
500
This election hinged on the annexation of Texas.
What is the election of 1844.
500
This river became disputed territory in the runup to the Mexican War.
What is the Nueces?
500
As the Mexican War ended, these prospectors rushed to California territory in search of gold. Touchdown!
Who are the 49ers?