This man was the 12th president of the U.S.(1849-1850) He was a major general during the Mexican War and commander of the army of the Rio Grande. (1846)
Who was Zachary Taylor?
100
This is a town in North Eastern West Virginia at the confluence (meeting) of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers: it is the site of John Brown's raid of 1859.
What is Harpers Ferry?
100
This document is a peace treaty, largely dictated by the United States.
What is The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
100
This is one of the two major contemperary (current) political parties in the Unites States, along with the Democratic Party.
What is the Republican Party?
100
This is the legal prohibition and ending of slavery, especially the ending of slavery of African Americans in the U.S.
What is Abolition?
200
This person was the author of Uncle Tom's cabin.
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
200
This man is most famous for his role in the pre-Civil War debate over states' rights; he was also a state senator from South Carolina.
Who was John C. Calhoun?
200
This is a set of laws, passed in the midst of fierce wrangling between groups favoring slavery and groups opposing it that attempted to give something to both sides.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
200
This was a political party that was prominent from 1853 to 1856, it's aim was to keep control of the government in the hands of native-born citizens: it got it's name because members originally professed ignorance of he party's activities.
What was the Know-Nothing Party?
200
This is the belief that the legitimacy of state is created by the will of consent of its people.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
300
This person was a U.S. abolitionist that escaped slavery and became a leader on the Underground Railroad; also she served as a Union scout during the Civil War.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
300
This man was an American abolitionist. In 1859 he and 21 of his followers captured the U.S. arsenal at Harper's Ferry as part of an effort to liberate Southern slaves.
Who was John Brown?
300
This was articulated by Staphen A. Douglas at the second of the Lincoln-Douglas debates on August 27, 1858, in Freeport Illinois.
What is The Freeport Doctrine?
300
This was a short-lived political party in the U.S. Active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections, and in some state elections.
What was the Free Soil Party?
300
This is the action of one party, person, or product being replaced by another that has become obsolete, incapacitated, retired, or deceased.
What is Succession?
400
This man was a towering figure in American politics in the middle part of the 19th century, a presidential [hopeful] whose political skills earned him the nickname "The Great Compromiser."
Who was Henry Clay?
400
This person was a U.S. political leader and statesman.
Who was Stephen Douglas?
400
This is a piece of legislature that declared that all runaway slaves be brought back to their masters.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
400
This was an American political party formed in the 1830s to oppose President Andrew Jackson and the Democrats.
What was the Whig Party?
400
This is the policy of protecting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants.
What is Nativist?
500
This man was an American politician. A U.S. Representative from New Hampshire.
Who was Daniel Webster?
500
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500
These were a set of laws in which eash U.S. state, or colony, defined the status of slaves and the rights of their masters.
What were the Slave Codes?
500
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This is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the U.S. other than the Republican Party.
What is the Democartic Party?
500
This was the Supreme Court's most important decision in the years leading up to the Civil War.