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| Thomas Jefferson | This man was president when the Louisiana Territory was added to the United States? |
| Lewis and Clark | These two men led the expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory? |
| War Hawks | The group of men in Congress who wanted a second war with England? |
| Francis Scott Key | The man who wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner"? |
| Sacajawea | This Indian woman helped Lewis and Clark? |
| Forty-niners | Gold seekers who went to California? |
| Napoleon | The leader of France who sold Louisiana Territory to the United States? |
| James Madison | This man became the fourth president of the United States? |
| Tecumseh | The Indian chief who tried to organize the Indians against the white settlers? |
| Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun | These two men were leaders of the War Hawks? |
| Oliver Hazard Perry | This naval officer controlled American ships on Lake Erie? |
| Eli Whitney | Invented the cotton gin, which made slavery more profitable? |
| John C. Calhoun | Great politician from South Carolina? |
| Abolitionist | A person who felt slavery should be wiped out immediately? |
| Abraham Lincoln | Debated with Stephen Douglas for the Senate seat from Illinois? |
| John Brown | Led an attack on Harper's Ferry to get guns for a slave uprising? |
| Abraham Lincoln | This man became president in 1860? |
| Jefferson Davis | This man became president of the Confederacy? |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Name the author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin"? |
| Slave Traders | People who captured slaves in their own country and brought them to the New World? |
| Daniel Webster, John Calhoun | These two men debated the issue of states' rights in the Senate in 1830. |
| Daniel Webster | Famous senator from Massachusetts who did not believe strongly in states' rights? |
| William Lloyd Garrison | This Bostonian was a strong abolitionist and a newspaper man? |
| John Brown | This man led a raid in Kansas that killed five pro-slavery men? |
| Stephen A. Douglas | The senator from Illinois who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act? |
| Major Robert Anderson | This Northerner was in charge of Fort Sumter during the Southern attack on the fort? |
| Robert E. Lee | This man recaptured Harper's Ferry and arrested John Brown? |
| Immigrants | Much of the farm labor of the northern section of the United States was done by these people? |
| Phillis Wheatley | Woman slave from Massachusetts who was educated and allowed by her master to write poems? |
| Nat Turner | In 1831, this Negro preacher led about sixty slaves against the whites in Virginia? |
| John C. Fremont | This man ran for president in 1856 on the slogan "free soil, free speech, free labor . . . and free men"? |
| Roger B. Taney | This man was the Supreme Court Chief Justice during the Dred Scott case? |
| North | This section of the United States became a leader in manufacturing and commerce? |
| Africa | This is the continent from which slaves came? |
| Missouri | When this area wanted to become a state, Henry Clay worked out his first compromise? |
| South Carolina | First Southern state to leave the Union? |
| Fort Sumter | First fighting between the North and the South? |
| Richmond | The capital of the Confederacy was moved here after all the Southern states had left the union? |
| Maine | When Missouri became a slave state in 1820, this area became a free state? |
| Kentucky | Henry Clay came from this state? |
| Liberia | The American Colonization Society started a colony of freed slaves. What is the name of this colony? |
| Western Territories | Many Southerners wanted to extend slavery into this area? |
| Senate | Both the North and the South were concerned about the balance of power in this national legislative body? |
| California | This area wanted to enter the Union in 1850 and this resulted in another compromise? |
| Kansas | When this area wanted to become a state, both Northerners and Southerners rushed in to vote to make it a free or slave state? |
| Lawrence | The "free-state capital" of Kansas was located here? |
| Pottawatomie Creek | John Brown led a raid that killed five pro-slavery men in this town in Kansas? |
| Shawnee Mission | The "slave-state capital" of Kansas was located here? |
| Montgomery | This was the first capital of the Confederate States? |
| Cotton | This was the major crop of the Southern colonies prior to the Civil War? |
| Slavery | Probably the major cause of the Civil War? |
| Plantations | Large Southern farms? |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | Famous anti-slavery book written by a woman? |
| Confederate States of America | The new nation formed by the Southern states was called ? |
| Tariff | A tax on goods brought into a country from foreign lands was called this? |
| Liberator | This paper was printed by William Lloyd Garrison? |
| Republican | New political party formed in 1854? |
| Underground Railroad | Secret routes taken by slaves when they escaped to reach the North? |
| American Colonization Society | Group of people who raised money and founded a colony for former slaves in Africa? |
| Tariff of Abominations | Extremely high tariff of 1828 was called this by Southerners? |
| Wilmot Proviso | What was the bill called that said slavery should be forbidden in all the lands taken from Mexico? |
| Dred Scott Case | The Supreme Court tried to settle the slavery question with a decision in this case? |
| Compromise | When two arguing groups agree to give up some things to reach an agreement? |
| Abolish | The term that means to stop slavery? |
| Free State | An area that did not allow slavery was called this? |
| States' Rights | The idea that the individual states have the final say on matters tha affect their citizens was called? |
| Secession | The idea that a state could leave the Union? |
| Fugitive | A slave who has run away? |
| Doctrine of Nullification | The idea that a state could outlaw or refuse to obey a law passed by Congress? |
| Popular Sovereignty | The idea that said the people in the area of the Mexican Cession would vote to decide if their state would be slave or free? |
