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Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce and Buchannan
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Term for a person running for office | candidate |
| The principle whereby people of a territory decide for themselves if they want slavery | popular sovereignty |
| President who had been the hero of the Mexican War | Zachary Taylor |
| Votes cast by the people in a presidential election | popular vote |
| Term meaning the United States | Union |
| Groups of people with different ideas on how the government should be run; they try to get their candidates elected to office | political parties |
| People who come to the United States from other counries | immigrants |
| A high crime against the government of the United States | treason |
| He opened Japan to American trade | Commodore Matthew Perry |
| To withdraw from the Union | secede |
| The fastest sailing ships of the mid-1800s | clipper ships |
| Three Terms of the Compromise of 1850 | 1. California comes in to the Union as a freed state 2. Utah and New Mexico Territories created from lands of the Mexican Cessian 3. Utah and New Mexico Territorities would decide if they would be free or slave by popular sovereignty |
| In he 1850s, the law-making body which came under Northern control | Congress |
| Two houses of Congress | House of Representatives and Senate |
| Two more terms of the Compromise of 1850 | 4. No slave sales in Washington, D. C. 5. Congress would pass a Fugitive Slave Law |
| It declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional and denied freedom to Dred Scott | Supreme Court |
| New nation established by seven seceded states | Confederate States of America |
| The lawmaking body which came under Northern control in the Antebellum Period | Congress |
| He proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and defeated Abraham Lincoln in the 1858 Illinois Senate race | Stephen A. Douglas |
| A meeting at which delegates choose their party's presidential and vice-presidential candidates | National Convention |
| Votes given to the presidential candidate who wins the most popular votes in a state | Electoral votes |
| A person who wanted to do away with slavery | Abolitionist |
| Zachary Taylor's political party | Whig Party |
| Term meaning "against slavery" | anti-slavery |
| Term meaning "for slavery" | pro-slavery |
| A mail delivery service that carried letters and packages to the west coast in wagons | Overland Mail Service |
| Political Party in the Elecion of 1848 which opposed the extension of slavery into the territories | Free Soil Party |
| Zachary Taylor's political party | Whig Party |
| Term meaning "against slavery" | anti-slavery |
| Term meaning "for slavery" | pro-slavery |
| A mail delivery service that carried letters and packages to the west coast in wagons | Overland Mail Service |
| Political Party in the Elecion of 1848 which opposed the extension of slavery into the territories | Free Soil Party |
| Term for state which permitted slavery | Slave State |
| People who hurried to California during the gold rush | 49ers |
| A railroad that linked the East and West | transcontinental railroad |
| Land which has not yet been organized into states | Territory |
| Term for the period of time when candidates make speeches and try to get themselves elected to office | campaign |
| An official count of the population | census |
| The U.S. Constitution requires this every 10 years | census |
| It required Northerners to cooperate in returning runaway slaves | Fugitive Slave Law |
| Chief Executive of the United States | President |
| Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Lawmaking body in which the North had a 36 to 30 advantage in 1860 | Senate |
| House of Congress dominated by the North, because of its greater population | House of Representatives |
| South Carolina and six other states seceded after he was elected president in 1860 | Abraham Lincoln |
| Known as the Great Compromiser | Henry Clay |
| Henry Clay was the senator from this state | Kentucky |
| Political office held by Millard Fillmore prior to becoming president | Vice-president |
| Nickname for the Western territory that was the scene of violence between proslavery and antislavery forces | Bleeding Kansas |
| The first Southern state to secede | South Carolina |
| Political party formed after the Kansas-Nebraska Act; wanted to keep slavery out of territories | Republican Party |
| He took part in "Bleeding Kansas;" later attacked the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia | John Brown |
| High-speed mail delivery system between St. Louis, Missouri and Sacramento, California | Pony Express |
| Term for a slave owner | master |
| British citizen who developed a new way of converting iron into steel | Henry Bessemer |
| President of the United States when the Confederate States of America was first organized | James Buchannan |
| The last territory added to the continental United States | Gadsden Purchase |
| A statement of ideas or plan of action of a political party | platform |
| President who lost popularity for defending the rights of immigrants | Franklin Pierce |
| Reason Milliard Fillmore bcame president | Zachary Taylor died |
| First state to sign a law requiring children to attend school | Massachusetts |
| Small strip of Mexican Territory at southern end of Rocky Mountains | Gadsden Purchase |
| Cost of Gadsden Purchase | $10 million |
| Term which describes the end of Japanese isolation from the West | Open Door Policy |
| Two men who worked for a new method of turning iron into steel-one American and one British | William Kelly and Henry Bessemer |
| First Republican presidential candidate | John C. Fremont |
| Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during the Dred Scott Case | Roger B. Taney |
| Ran against each other in 1858 Illinois Senatorial campaign | Stephen A. Douglas (Democratic) and Abraham Lincoln (Republican) |
| Said, "A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free." | Abraham Lincoln in 1858 Illinois Senatorial campaign |
| Thought slavery was a "moral, social, and political evil" | Abraham Lincoln |
| Winner of 1858 Illinois Senatorial election | Stephen A. Douglas |
| Drilled the first successful oil well in Pennsylvania | Edwin L.Drake |
| Length of time the Pony Express lasted | 18 months |
| Invention which spelled the end of the Pony Express | telegraph |
| Nickname of Zachary Taylor | Old Rough and Ready |
| Name of Zachary Taylor's horse | Old Whitey |
| Political party to which Zachary Taylor belonged | Whig Party |
| Before becoming president only job Zachary Taylor ever held | soldier |
| What killed Zachary Taylor | Food poisoning |
| A popular form of entertainment in the mid-1850s was white men dressed in black face. Name a group popular for this type of entertainment | Christy Minstrals |
| A Northerner who believed slavery was O.K. | doughface |
| Nickname of Franklin Pierce | Young Hickory |
| First maker of jeans | Levi Strauss |
| Place Senator Charles Sumner was beaten with a cane | U. S. Senate |
| Only U.S. president to never have married | James Buchannan |
| Said, "I am the last U. S. president." | James Buchannan |
| To become president, a candidate must win a majority of what kind of vote? | electoral vote |
| Reason many Americans were opposed to immigrants in 1800s | Took jobs away from Americans by agreeing to work for less money |
| Act which repealed the Missouri Compromise | Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| Declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional | Dred Scott Case |
| Raided the government arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia in order to capture weapons and arm the slaves | John Brown |
| Negotiated a treaty that opened Japan to U. S. trade | Matthew C.Perry |
| the "Great Compromiser" | Henry Clay |
| Worked out many agreements between the North and South | Henry Clay |
| Won the Illinois Senate race in 1858 following a series of debates with Abraham Lincoln | Stephen A. Douglas |
| By the mid-1850s where did political parties choose a presidential candidate? | National convention |
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