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Question 1

Missouri Compromise

Answer 1

1820 Allowed Missouri to be a slave state, and Maine to be free. Another amendment prohibited slavery in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north of the southern border of Missouri. Line drawn at 36-30.

Question 2

Vesey Conspiracy

Answer 2

1822 a free black man Denmark Vesey planned to seize local armories, arm the slave population, and take possession of Charleston.

Question 3

Gag Rule

Answer 3

1830s slavery discussion prohibited in mail

Question 4

Nat Turner

Answer 4

1831 Virginia slave. Turner led his band of slaves across plantations where he oversaw the killing of nearly sixty whites. Led to stricter rights for blacks.

Question 5

Annexation of Texas and Oregon

Answer 5

1845 John Tyler and John C. Calhoun linked the annexation of Texas to interests of the South & slavery - slave state. Oregon - free.

Question 6

Wilmot Proviso

Answer 6

1848 proposed that free blacks and slaves couldn’t live in the territory gained by the Mexican cession. didn’t pass. followers drawn to free soil party.

Question 7

Compromise of 1850

Answer 7

1850 Providing mutual concessions to both sections. California was to be entered as a free state, and the rest of the Mexican cession had no explicit prohibition of slavery. Grant the disputed region of NM and TX to NM while compensating TX through federal assumption of its state debt. Abolition of slave trade in DC. A more effective Fugitive Slave Law

Question 8

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Answer 8

1852 published by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 9

Ostend Manifesto

Answer 9

1854 Pierce caribbean slave empire.

Question 10

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 10

1854 kansas and nebraska would be popular sovereignty. split democratic party, rid the compromise of 1850

Question 11

Creation of Republic Party

Answer 11

1854

Question 12

Preston Brooks assaults Charles Sumner

Answer 12

1856

Question 13

Dred Scott Case

Answer 13

1857 ruled he was not a legal citizen, free or slave. declared Missouri Compromise unconstitutional. Northerners believed it was a political act - 5 out of 6 judges were Southerners.

Question 14

Lecompton Constitution

Answer 14

1858 Buchanan attempted to push it through Congress, making Kansas a slave state. People voted it down.

Question 15

Harpers Ferry Raid

Answer 15

1859 John Brown and other white men killing white men in the name of slavery

Question 16

Plantation Agriculture

Answer 16

1860 Cotton reached an all time high - higher slave demand

Question 17

11 states seceded and became the Confederacy

Answer 17

May 1861

Question 18

20’s

Answer 18

Missouri Compromise, Vesey Compromise

Question 19

30’s

Answer 19

Gag Rule, Nat Turner

Question 20

40’s

Answer 20

Annexation of Texas and Oregon, Wilmot Proviso

Question 21

50-55 (5)

Answer 21

Compromise of 1850, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Ostend Manifesto, Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854, Creation of Republican Party

Question 22

56-61 (6)

Answer 22

Preston Brooks assaults Charles Sumner, Dred Scott Case, Lecompton Constitution, Harpers Ferry Raid, Plantation Agriculture, 11 states seceded