History of the Americas Questions
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Which compromise is shown below? It created a free state (ME) and a slave state (MO).
Which compromise is shown below? It added CA as a free state and a tougher fugitive slave law?
What did Abraham Lincoln "win" after he lost the 1858 Senate campaign against Stephen Doughlas?
Songs, mostly religious, sung by slaves are called...
The belief that states have rights to do what is best for themselves and to ignore federal laws?
A tariff is a _______________________ It caused economic tension between North and South.
Uncle Tom's Cabin was a best selling book of the 1800's. Who wrote it?
What law (act), that led to violence in Kansas (Bleeding Kansas) is shown below?
What effect did the Compromise of 1850 have on the city of Washington DC?
The Kansas Nebraska Act basically canceled the_________________, allowing slavery to move North of MO.
The abolitionist who led over 300 slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad new face of $20?
This radical abolitionist led a raid on Harpers Ferry in an attempt to start a slave rebellion?
Abolitionist who changed her name and began a Journey to tell people the truth about slavery.
-Civil War ends in 1865 with Union factory
How much of the southern white male population died in the war?
Thomas Jefferson received the bulk of his support the __________.
the 1st time Parliament ever taxed the colonies toraise money for the crown
Alexander Hamilton's financial program favored __________.
Ben Franklin proposed a plan of union (delegates approved, colonies rejected- as did parliament)
The "__ __ __ __ __" rang out, though historians don't know who fired first