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What did Franklin Pierce become in 1853?

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President

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Enslaved African American who rebelled

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May turner

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What Senate race in 1858 Was the center of national attention?

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Illinois

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Who was not a presidential candidate in 1860?

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John C. Calhoun

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What plan specified that slavery should not be prohibited in any Lands that might be acquired from Mexico?

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Wilmer Proviso

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What act made it to where a person could be fined or imprisoned for aiding fugitives?

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Fugitive slave act

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What was the first territory to shed blood in a civil war over slavery?

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Kansas

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What Supreme Court decision divided the nation even more?

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Dred Scott case

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Douglas’s stand that people could exclude slavery by refusing to pass laws protecting slaveholders rights came to be known as?

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The Freeport doctrine

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The 1860 presidential candidate whose name did not appear on the ballot in most southern states was?

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Abraham Lincoln

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Who was the senator from Kentucky to try to save the union by proposing a last-minute compromise?

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John Crittenden

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What network, which helps runaway slaves to escape, was established in opposition to the fugitive slave act?

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The underground railroad

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Repealed the Missouri compromise

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Kansas-Nebraska act

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Who won 1848 presidential election?

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Zachary Taylor

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Henry Clay’s plan?

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The compromise of 1850

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Wrote civil disobedience

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Henry David Thoreau

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Ruled on the Dred Scott decision

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Roger B. Taney

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Steven Douglas’s response to slavery

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Freeport doctrine

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Proposed Missouri compromise

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Henry Clay

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Formed on February 4, 1861

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Confederacy

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Violent abolitionist

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John Brown

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Opponent of Abraham Lincoln

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Stephen a. Douglas

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First Attack of the Civil War

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Sumter

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Letting the people decide

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Popular sovereignty

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President of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
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Propposed amendments to protect slavery
John Crittenden
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Justification for the South seceding
States's rights
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A community based in a vision of a perfect society is called?
Utopia
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Who was the leader of educational reform?
Horace Mann
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The first college to admit both African Americans and women was?
Oberlin college
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Writers Margaret fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau were?
Transendentalists
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Who wrote uncle tom's cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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The first white abolitionist to call for "immediate and complete emancipation" of enslaved people was?
William Lloyd garrison
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The first women's rights convention was held in?
New York
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Women fighting to end slavery recognized their own oppression and formed the?
Women's rights movement
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Which was the first state to grant women the right to vote?
Wyoming
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In the 1800s there was a wave of religious fervor known as the?
Second great awakening
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What movement called for drinking little or no alcohol ?
Temperance
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Who began the crusade against the use of alcohol?
Lyman Beecher
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Who wrote the narrative poem song of Hiawatha?
Henry wadsworth Longfellow
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Who constructed the first mechanical reaper?
Cyrus McCormick
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Who wrote seemingly simple, deeply personal poems?
Emily Dickinson
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The network of escape routes out of the south for enslaved people was the?
Underground Railroad
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Who was the most famous Underground Railroad conductor?
Harriet Tubman
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The most controversial issue at the Seneca falls convention concerned?
Suffrage
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Who graduated first in the class and gained fame as a doctor after being repeatedly turned down for admission to medical school?
Elizabeth Blackwell
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Frontier camp meetings
Revivals
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Arriving between 1820 and 1860, the second largest group of immigrants was from
Germany
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Reformed care for mentally ill
Dorothea Dix
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North Star editor
Fredrick Douglas
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Runaway slave escape route
Underground Railroad
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The right to vote
Suffrage
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Practiced civil disobedience
Henry David Thoreau
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Wrote uncle tom's cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Demanded women suffrage
Elizabeth cady Stanton
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Called for by Susan b. Anthony
Coeducation
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Site of the first women's' rights convention
Seneca falls, New York
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Perfect society
Utopia
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Founder of Troy female seminary
Emma Willard
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Drinking little or no alcohol
Temperance
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Founder of mount Holyoke
Mary Lyon
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What was the name of the former slave who attracted huge crowds to hear her eloquent speeches?
Sojourner truth
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By 1860, the Midwest and the east were united by a network of
Railroad tracks
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With workers of the same skills, workers formed
Trade unions
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The demand for cotton from the south came from
Europe
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Who purchased his freedom from the slaveholder he had fled?
Fredrick Douglass
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What large group of southerners owned small farms of about 50 to 200 acres?
Yeomen
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What transformed trade in the nation's interior?
Railways
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Many immigrants lived in
Slums
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To put pressure on employers, workers staged
Strikes
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Many immigrants from which country became servants and factory workers?
Ireland
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The largest group of whites in the south were
Yeomen
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What group of southerners measured their wealth partly by the number of enslaved people they controlled
Plantation owners
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Enslaved people needed an extended family as a measure of security because they
Could be sold
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What made it a crime to teach enslaved people to read or write?
Slave codes
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Built first United States steam locomotive
Peter copper
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Transmitted first telegraph message
Samuel morse
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Members of the know nothing party
Nativists
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Increased cotton processing
Cotton gin
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A form of loan
Credit
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The north's main income
Industry
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The south's main income
Regular expenses
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Plantation manager
Overseer
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Refusal to work
Strike
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Formed American party
Nativists
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Grew sugarcane
Deep South
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Extreme shortage of food
Famine
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Produced tobacco
Upper south
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What was the last country to challenge the U.S's control of Oregon?
Britain
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What allowed people from both Britain and the United States to settle in Oregon country
Joint occupation
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Mountain men made their living as
Fur trappers
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Who was not killed at the battle of the Alamo?
Sam Houston
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What was the third part of James K Polk's war plan?
To capture Mexico City
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Cmdr. in chief of the Texas forces was
Sam Houston
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Founded by the Mormons, which city was originally called Desiree?
Salt Lake City
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Reports of what persuaded many Americans to settle in Oregon country?
Fertile lands
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Santa Anna was captured in the battle of
San Jacinto
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What did the United States insist was the border between the United States and Mexico?
Rio grande
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What town in California was seized by a small group and renamed the bear flag Republic?
Sonoma
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Which people made huge profits during the goldrush?
Merchants
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What event ended in a few years but had long-lasting effects on California's economy?
Gold rush
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Who led the Mormon migration to the great Salt Lake area?
Brigham young
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Green River Explorer
Jim beckenwourth
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Way to Oregon country
Oregon trail
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Commander in chief of Texas forces
Sam Houston
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William becknell's route
Santa Fe trail
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Huge Mexican properties
Ranchos
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Mountain man turned guide
Kit Carson
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Ordered Texans execution
Antonio lópez de Santa Anna
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Mexican ranch owners
Rancheros
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Mexicans living in California
Californios
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Flourished during the goldrush
San Francisco
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Stephen Austin
Empresario
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Mormon land in Utah
Deseret
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Took the law into their own hands
Vigilantes
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Official order
Decree
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Gold seekers
Forty-niners
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Which party endorsed the Wilmont proviso?
Free-soil
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Why was admission of Missouri as a slave state controversial in the Senate?
It would upset the balance of slave and free states
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Liberia
"Place of freedom"
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What did the enforcement of the fugitive slave lead to?
More anger in the north

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