What was the significance of Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion?

It impacted the history of slavery in the United States

What was the American Abolitionist Movement?

Advancements made towards ending slavery

What was Nat Turner's Rebellion?

A rebellion of people who were enslaved led by Nat Turner took place in Virginia in 1831

What was the Underground Railroad?

A secret network of free blacks and whites who helped thousands of enslaved people escape to free states and Canada.

How did the gold rush impact the economy of California?

It boosted the economy by attracting a large population, stimulating infrastructure development, and increasing trade and commerce.

Why did the U.S. go to war with Mexico?

Territorial expansion to the Pacific coast

What was the primary issue addressed by the Compromise of 1850?

The issue of slavery in America's new territories

What did the Compromise of 1850 include to address the issue of runaway slaves? Options: A prohibition of slave trade in the District of Columbia, A more stringent Fugitive Slave Law, The organization of the new territories, The admission of California as a free state

A more stringent Fugitive Slave Law

What does Compromise mean?

settling a dispute by mutual concession

What was Manifest Destiny?

A belief in the expansion of the United States

What was the Gadsden Purchase?

Land in the southern area of New Mexico and Arizona that the U.S. bought from Mexico with the plans of building a railroad.

By 1860, the North's Economy was based on-

industry, manufacturing and selling goods

The Missouri Compromise (1820), the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) were all efforts to

settle disputes over the spread of slavery to western territories

What was the purpose of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

to allow the citizens to decide if a state would be a free state or a slave state

Why was slavery nearly nonexistent in the Northern states by the time that the Civil War began? Options: Northern farmers were poor and could not afford slaves. Most Northern states outlawed slavery after a series of slave rebellions. The industrial economies of the Northern states was not suited to slave labor. Christian leaders in the North pressed state lawmakers to outlaw slavery on moral grounds.

The industrial economies of the Northern states was not suited to slave labor.

Which two people were "fighting" in the Nullification process?

Andrew Jackson and John C Calhoun

Which region's primary economic activity in 1861 was the cultivation of cotton?

The region where the primary economic activity in 1861 was the cultivation of cotton.

The "Free-Soil" Party was

a political party that wanted to STOP the spread of slavery

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People who opposed slavery were known as: Abolitionists, Secessionists, Sharecroppers, Confederates

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Abolitionists

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The Republican Party was based mostly in the...

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North

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Who became the "symbol" of the Republican Party in the 1800's?

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Abraham Lincoln

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This law (act) opened the Kansas and Nebraska territory to being possible slave states.

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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What is popular sovereignty?

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Where sovereignty is left to the people to decide

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Someone who fights to end slavery

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Abolitionist

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Who was the famous abolitionist who published the Liberator?

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William Lloyd Garrison

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