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100
The name of those who were anti-slavery
What is abolitionist?
100
This legislation led to bleeding Kansas due to the effect of popular sovereignty.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
100
Slave who led a rebellion, killing approximately 61 whites
Who is Nat Turner?
100
Slave who was the subject of a Supreme Court case where slaves we deemed not to be citizens
Who is Dred Scott?
100
The place where John Brown led an abolitionist raid to begin a revolution.
What is the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry?
200
This woman wrote the Declaration of Sentiments at the Seneca Falls Conference.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
200
Legislation that set the 36-30 parallel line as the divider for slave and free states to be brought into the Union.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
200
Abolitionist who led the raid on Harper's Ferry
Who is John Brown?
200
Movement led by women to abolish the sale of alcohol
What is the temperance movement?
200
The right of the people residing in a particular territory to choose whether their state would be slave or free
What is popular sovereignty?
300
This man was the founder of the abolitionist paper "The Liberator."
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
300
The name of the legislation that banned slavery from any territory gained from the Mexican-American War.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
300
President for the "common man"
Who is Andrew Jackson?
300
Campaign tactics used during elections to reach the widest number of people
What is popular political culture?
300
Freed slave who, when encouraged by William Lloyd Garrison, joined the abolitionist movement as a speaker
Who is Frederick Douglass?
400
This man was a leader in public education reform.
Who is Horace Mann?
400
This legislation admitted California as a free state and Texas as a slave state.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
400
President who made "corrupt bargain" with Henry Clay to win the election of 1828
Who is John Quincy Adams?
400
Women's Rights Convention attended by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
400
Legislation that allowed slave owners to travel into free territory to capture and return run-away slaves
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
500
The writer of "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
500
This legislation brought about the nullification crisis.
What is the tariffs imposed on the imported goods?
500
Jackson's vice-president who led the nullification crisis in South Carolina
Who is John C. Calhoun?
500
Event provoked by General Zachary Scott crossing the Rio Grande from Texas.
What is the Mexican-American War?
500
Widely held belief that American settlers had a God-given right to expand their territory to the Pacific Ocean and throughout North America
What is manifest destiny?