- Settlers from overseas who came to America in search of freedom and a better way of life.
Your answer:
Temperance movement
Immigrants
Popular sovereignty
Literate
- Supreme Court decision that made slavery legal in any federal territory.
Your answer:
Temperance movement
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Fugitive Slave Act
Dredd Scott v. Sanford
- Law passed in 1854 that opened the West to slavery.
Your answer:
Gadsden Purchase
Temperance Movement
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Fugitive Slave Act
- Term used to describe people who are able to read and to write.
Your answer:
Immigrants
Nathaniels
Literate
Temperance
- Reform group of the mid-1899's that led some states to pass laws restricting the sale and the use of liquor.
Your answer:
Literacy movement
Temperance movement
the untouchables
Popular sovereignty
- American writer who felt that people should not be restricted by their society or by their government.
Your answer:
Sanford & Son
Dred Scott
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Henry David Thoreau
- American who wrote The House of the Seven Gables.
Your answer:
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Henry David Thoreau
Dred Scott
Gabe Sevenhouse
- Land bought from Mexico in 1853 to be used as a possible route for a southern transcontinental railroad.
Your answer:
Popular Sovereignty
Temperance movement
Union Pacific Purchase
Gadsen Purchase
- Law passed in 1850 that was designed to stop slaves from escaping to the North.
Your answer:
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Gadsden Purchase
Fugitive Slave Act
- Right of territorial citizens to decide if slavery would be allowed within their territories.
Your answer:
Gadsden Purchase
Popular Sovereignty
Fugitive Slave Act
Temperance movement
- In 1852, slavery was shown at its worst in a book entitled ...
Your answer:
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Scarlet Letter
Leaves of Grass
The Purple Letter
- Some government leaders supported a southern route for a transcontinental railroad partly because ...
Your answer:
they wanted to tie the North more closely to the South.
they had riden on the Santa Fe el Capitan & Super Chief.
the railroad would pass through lands already organized into states and territories.
such a route would speed economic growth in the north.
- Most Europeans who came to America in the 1850's settled in the ...
Your answer:
West and in the South.
Nebraska.
South.
North and in the West.
- In the 1850's, many Americans believed that one of the best ways to move up in society was to ...
Your answer:
receive an education.
move to the South.
move to Montana.
travel to Europe.
- The lowest social class in the South in the mid-1800's was made up of ...
Your answer:
planters.
slaves.
farmers.
teachers.
- Many southerners were suspicious of social reform during the mid-1800's because they believed that it ...
Your answer:
hurt the South's chances of building a transcontinental railroad.
was a northern plan to weaken the South.
was the work of conservatives.
would strengthen only the North.
- The most powerful and outspoken reform movement of the mid-1800's was ...
Your answer:
public education.
abolitionism.
temperance.
prison reform.
- During the mid-1850's, armed conflict between abolitionists and slaveowners broke out in ...
Your answer:
Kansas
Nebraska
New Mexico
Alaska
- The Kansas-Nebraska Act ...
Your answer:
outlawed slavery north of 36degrees 30'.
made Kansas & Nebraska switch places on the map.
opened the land north of 36degrees 30' to slavery.
outlawed slavery south of 36degrees 30'.
- By 1854, a new political party made up mainly of antislave northerners was formed and was called the ...
Your answer:
Whig Party
Celebration of Learning Party
Republican Party
Democratic Party