The Antebellum Period

What is discrimination?

• When equal rights are denied to certain groups of people

• A good thing

• The Geneva Convention

• Russia

What is slavery?

• The state of being in forced servitude to another person

• Indentured servitude

• Being paid for your work

• Fair treatment

What did the Compromise of 1850 do?

• It ceded New Mexico

• It admitted Nevada as a slave state

• It admitted California as a free state

• It admitted Canada to the Union

Where did the Oregon Trail begin?

• New York, New York

• Independence, Missouri

• Columbus, Ohio

• Oregon City, Oregon

David Walker published what?

• To Kill A Mockingbird

• Romeo & Juliet

• An Appeal To The Colored Citizens Of The World

• Moby Dick

True or False? The election of 1824 was the first election in which a sizable number of states were electing their Presidential electors by popular vote.

• True

• False

• Noes

• Yes

When was the Missouri Compromise?

• 1820

• 1804

• 1999

• 1914

A woodland is?

• Land that is seasonally flooded

• A flat plain

• Land that is covered in trees and shrubs

• Chicken

California was admitted into the Union as what state?

• 1st

• 31st

• 47th

• 51st

True or False? The electric telegraph was one of the first telecommunication devices of the industrial age.

• True

• Frue

• False

• Talse