Test 2-1 Aaron good
John Brown was executed following his illfated attack on
Hapers Ferry
Who was the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
In what free state was Dred Scott taken to live, prompting his famous legal action
Illinois
In 1831, _______ led a slave rebellion that killed more than 50 white southerners
Nat turner
The most successful slave rebellion was what?
Nat turner
Who actually wrote the Monroe Doctrine?
John Quincy Adams
Where was there so much violence that some believe that Civil War started there in 1857
Kansas
What was the 1854 law which divided the Louisiana Purchase into two large territories in which the slavery issue would be decided by popular sovereignty?
Kansas Nebraska Act
What was the name of the nativist political party that emerged in the 1850's?
Know nothing Party
What was the reality of Nat turners rebellion?
Made slavery worse
As Missouri petitioned to become a state in the union- the storm of controversy over the allowing of slavery resulted in Missouri being added to the union as well as what other state?
Maine
John O' Sullivan coined what catchy phrase for American's god given right to the land from one ocean to another?
Manifest Destiny
Who was the presidential candidate who ran on a third party ticket in 1848?
Martin van Burch
Dividing the free North and the slave South, the border between Pennsylvania and Maryland was also known as the
Mason Dixon Line
The father/husband who owned a plantation was called the _______
Master
The terrifying sexual mixing of races
Miscegenation
What feature of plantation life, according to the textbook, generated the most anguish among white southern women?
Miscgenation
In the old testament, slaves identified with the character of ____, who delivered his people from slavery
Moses
To encourage settlement in the land not densely populated, the Mexican government granted a huge tract of land to whom
Moses Austin
What issue caused the Civil War?
Slavery
What was banned on Mexico but the Texan settlers from the United States brought anyway?
Slavery
The mountainous region of the South, termed ____, was less geographically hospitable than the flatland to slavery and large plantations
upcountry
Landless, Poor white men in the south dreamed of becoming:
yeomen
After the Indian Removal act was found to unconstitutional by the supreme court, Jackson still forced the Indians to march west. What was this March called?
Trail of tears
What novel, published in 1852, served to galvanize Northern opposition to slavery?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Zachary Taylor was a member of the
Whig Party
WHat party grew up in response to Jackson's election?
Whigs
The Yeomen farmers, who were the poorest of all, were in favor of slavery, why?
White supremacy
Three out of four slave less southern whites were____ , small farmers who owned their own land.
Yeoman
The winner of the 1848 Presidential election:
Zachary Taylor
How did Millard Fillmore become president?
Zachary Taylor died
The Mystery Document refers to the queens dominions as what place?
canada
Male female relationships in South were characterized by very traditional and patriarchal norm and ideals which we describe with the term
chivilary
Without what product, would the North have been unable to industrialize?
cotton
Because of the crop's central importance to the political economy of the region, the south was described as the:
cotton kingdom
Jackson was the symbol of what new political party?
democratic
What major port was the South's largest city?
new orleans
The tax which the south called the Tariff of Abominations Was so unpopular that South Carolina threatened to do what to any tariffs?
nullify it
Southern slaveholders had a theory of_____, which legitimized slavery by emphasizing a kind of fatherly reciprocity which supposedly characterized the relationship between slave and master
paternalism
Large farms with 20 or more slaves was known as ______
planations
Most of the cotton in the South was grown in the ______ which streched from Southern Carolina to East Texas
plantation belt
A southern landowner with more than 20 slaves was known as a ...
planter
In the plantation belt, the small independent farmers typically dreamed of becoming:
planters
What class dominated Southern politics?
planters
A compromise position was that the slavery question would be resolved through_____ which would give a territory's residents the power to resolve the issue
popular sovereignty
The fight over the expansion of slavery led to the creation of what political party?
republicans
What did the state of South Carolina do on December 20, 1860?
seceded from the US
partly in response to the efforts antislavery activists, southern states enacted laws in the 1820s and 1830s which demanded the total submission of slaves. these laws were known as
slave codes
In 1846, a Pennsylvania Congressman put forward a proposal to ban slavery on the territory acquired from the Mexican American War. What was the name of this plan?
the Wilmot Proviso
The nullification of a reduced Tariff led Jackson to push through what act?
the force act
The sparse industry on the South proceed what fraction of manufactured goods?
10%
What approximate number per year made the journey north in search of freedom?
1000
Though a slave learning to read and write was prohibited, some did and even a few became preachers- these preachers were looked upon with suspicion by whites and this was logical since how many uprisings were lead by preachers?
2
By 1860, how many slaves were in the U.S
4 million
What percentage of the popular vote did Lincoln get?
40%
By the time Lincoln took office, how many states had seceded from the union?
7
How much of the world's cotton came from the American South?
75%
What " historian term" does Green use to describe the Democratic party
A hot mess
What did the Whigs believe that Jackson was turning himself into?
A king
Who was the former Whig Congressman from Illinois who in 1858 campained as a Republican for an Illonois seat in the US senate?
Abraham Lincoln
The Age of Jackson is in reference to which Jackson?
Andrew Jackson
The two famous events in the mid 1850's which ratcheted up tensions between the North and South were
Bleeding Kansas and Bleeding Sumner
Because of the Fugitive Slave law, many freed women and men moved to
Canada
Several laws passed by congress allowed California to enter the Union as a free state while New Mexico and Utah would be decided by the state's populations. Collectively, these laws were called the
Compromise of 1850
In February of 1861, representatives from SC, GA, FL, AL, MS,LA, and TX created_____
Confederate States of America
What did Andrew Jackson call the election of John Quincy Adams?
Corrupt Bargain
Who was the freeborn black Bostonian who in 1829 published Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the world?
David Walker
What is Martin Van Buren credited for creating
Democratic Party
What political party won the Presidency in the elections of 1852 and 1856?
Democrats
Who did the State of Carolina find guilty of plotting a massive slave insurrection in 1822?
Denmark vesey
In 1857, the US supreme court issued the notorious ____ decision, declaring that black americans were "so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect
Dred Scot
Slaves that worked in the cotton fields worked in gangs under an overseer or a what?
Driver
The time period after the War of 1812, which saw only one political party was called what?
Era of Good feelings
What do the nicknames" the Little Magician" and "old Hickory" tell us about the elections of the time?
For appealing to the people
What small group of people in the South were required to carry " freedom papers" and were according to aSouth Carolina judge- " a degraded caste of society,' and "ought, by law, to be compelled to demean themselves as inferiors?
Free blacks
What was the new third party that ran in the 1848 election?
Free soil Party
What was the most controversial part of the compromise of 1850?
Fugative Slave Law
A part of the Compromise of 1850, the _______ Act stipulated that all Us citizen, including Northerners, were expected to assist in apprehending runaway slaves
Fugitive slave act
In the New testament, slaves identified with the character of _______ who offered salvation to all
Jesus
Who famously lead the group that killed five pro slavery settlers along the Pottawatomie Creek
John Brown
Who was the abolitionist who famously executed slave catchers in Kansas?
John Brown
What two men were fans of the American System?
John C. Calhoun/ Henry Clay
A depression emerged which was led off by what event?
Panic of 1837
With no national bank, local banks were given monies of the gov. , but it seemed that it was allocated to those that supported Jackson, leading many of Jackson's critics to refer to these local banks as:
Pet banks
What was the name of the anti slavery political party that emerged in the 1850's?
Republican party
Avowed Racist and all around ass-hat John C. Calhoun defended slavery as a good - what jobs did he have (which makes his views that much more upsetting)?
Secretary of State, Secretary of war, Vice president
Fort Sumner was fired upon by what forces?
Southern
What tiny man was a huge railroad backer?
Stephen Douglas
Who was Abraham Lincoln's opponent on a famous series of debates during the 1858 Illinois Senate race?
Stephen Douglas
What was Martin Van Buren's nickname?
The Little Magician
The mother/ wife of the man in charge was known as the ____.
mistress
In his final goodbye, John does not say "Dont forget to be awesome" but says,
dont forget to be abolitionists
The video game " Oregon Trail" was accurate in that a lot of people died of Cholera and what other diseases?
dysentary
What long term solution did Abraham Lincoln favor for vlack Americans?
emegration
What was the name for the radical Southerners who urged secession from the Union?
fire eaters
What was one way that slaves could rebel against dehumanization which could be upset by the sale of one or more of the slaves?
forming families
Rather than allow slavery to expand Westward, Northerners wanted the land preserved for
free labor
Kansas joined the union of 1861 as what kind of state?
free state
What were 2 things that the South did not have which was a disadvantage to them in the Civil War?
industry railroads
To facilitate the transcontinental railroad, Stephen Douglas pushed for what two territories to become more state like?
kansas and nebraska