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Explore questions in the History of the Americas category that you can ask Sparky!
- Which of the following WAS NOT an advantage of the south:
- Which of the following WAS NOT an advantage of the North in the Civil War?
- who was a fervent abolitionist, Wants to make VA a free state, Attacks armory in Harper's Ferry Oct. 1859, Fails & is hung, Seen as a martyr in the North
- radical republican senator from MA, Gives a speech "Crime against Kansas" condemning violence & slavery, beaten up by Preston Brooks in court
- ____________ was leading a mapping expedition in the Sierra Nevadas. He joined the American settlers in their revolt against the Californios.
- law that restricted the sale of alcohol
- What was the Fugitive Slave Law called by the North?
- who was nominated by Republican party for 1860 election, Makes famous "House Divided" speech, challenges Douglas to a series of debates
- 1856, the two groups began to attack one another, Civil War in Kansas over slavery, Border Ruffians vs Free Soilers
- In the ___________ Mexico gave the U.S. the territories of California, Nevada and Utah, most of Arizona and New Mexico, and parts of Colorado and Wyoming (Mexico Cession)
- who was a slave who traveled with his master into North several times, while in the North, he legally married & had children, in 1846 in MO, he sued his master for freedom
- "Preserve, protect, and defend" the Constitution, not a message of force
- who was the main Chief Justice in the 1850s, focused on defense for slavery
- Spain gave Florida to the U.S. in exchange for ___________ million and control of Texas
- Autonomous people of a territory should determine themselves the status of slavery in their territory
- who used Underground Railroad-13 missions trying to get to Canada, "The Black Moses", Women's suffrage movements
- a court case, decision handed down in 1857 by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, No African-American (free of slave) were citizens of the U.S., they were property (cannot sue), ruled the MO Compromise unconstitutional
- There wasn't a ___________ school system before mid 1800s
- who as a slave for 30 years, Preached abolition/women's rights
- law passed that created 2 new territories, Kansas & Nebraska, Slave issue determined by Popular Sovereignty, Assumed NE would be free state & KS would be slave state (r