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Question 1

Manifest Destiny

Answer 1

Coast to coast spread left of US

Question 2

Erie Canal

Answer 2

Connects Atlantic Ocean to Great Lakes.Access to good rises and prices drop. Cheaper to move. New York City becomes center of trade

Question 3

Seneca Fall Convention

Answer 3

Major women’s rights meeting

Question 4

Mexican American War

Answer 4

Fight w Mexico and win. Nueces/Rio Grande. Fought bc we want California

Question 5

Gold rush

Answer 5

Happen in 1849, population booms, they apply for state hood

Question 6

Invention of the cotton gin

Answer 6

Increases slavery, made a lot easier to make cotton. Separates seeds from cotton

Question 7

Dread Scott Decision

Answer 7

Dread Scott is a slave who sued for his freedom bc he was brought into free states. Went to the Supreme Court, they ruled that he is not a citizen of US and not allowed to sue, Slaves are property and can be taken anywhere. 1854

Question 8

Missouri Compromise

Answer 8

36/30 Maine is a free state, Missouri is a slave state. Stopped my Dread Scott case

Question 9

Compromise of 1850

Answer 9

Fugitive slave act. California is free state

Question 10

Fugitive Slave Act

Answer 10

Southerners can go up north and get there slaves back or any African American, Federal offense to help run away slaves

Question 11

Abolitionist Movement

Answer 11

People who want to see the end of slavery

Question 12

Raid on Harper Ferry

Answer 12

John Brown attempt to stop slavery and arm slaves with weapon from the fort

Question 13

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Answer 13

Fighting for senate seat in Illinois, Douglas wins, but Lincoln makes name for himself

Question 14

Election of 1860

Answer 14

Since the democrats sent two candidates the votes are split, and Lincoln becomes president

Question 15

South Carolina Sucession

Answer 15

Lincoln gets elected and SC leaves the union

Question 16

Popular Soveregnty

Answer 16

Let the people decide if they want to be slave or free state by voting

Question 17

Kansas Nebraska Act

Answer 17

Kansas and Nebraska got on slavery

Question 18

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 18

Innocent people die because pro and anti slave forces come to Kansas and fight. Riots and violence. 55 people dead

Question 19

President Polk

Answer 19

The manifest destiny president. Settles despite to Oregon territory, add Texas to US teitorry-negotiates w British, instigates a fight the Mexicans and wins

Question 20

Fredrick Douglas

Answer 20

Escaped slave, writes about his experience. Speaks out against slavery. Found the anti slave newspaper written in Rochester

Question 21

William Lloyd Garrison

Answer 21

Writes anti slave paper in Boston called the Liberator, burned a copy of declaration on 4th of July symbolic protest

Question 22

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Answer 22

Wrote Uncle Toms Cabin, she is a female that interviews run away slaves.

Question 23

John Brown

Answer 23

Bleeding Kansas, he kills five slaves owners with the help of his brothers. Raid on Harper’s Ferry to get guns and arm the slaves and start a war to endure slavery. Put on trial and hung

Question 24

Harriet Tubman

Answer 24

Underground rail road, helped 300 slaves escape

Question 25

Stephen Douglas

Answer 25

Support Kansas Nebraska act, beat lincolns first time but loosing the second time

Question 26

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 26

During the debates a house divides against itself would not stand