Expansion and disunion (1812-1860)

Question 1

kansas nebraska act

Answer 1

overturned 36*30 line. proposed kansas and nebraska to choose weather to have slavery in that area

Question 2

compromise of 1850

Answer 2

mexican cession determined by popular soverity,california being a free state,slave trade banned,fugitive slave act.

Question 3

election of 1860

Answer 3

lincoln elected for president in 1860. he wanted to save the union and stop expansion of slavery

Question 4

mexican american war

Answer 4

america won this war. troops crossed into mexican terrortory and mexico fired at US soldiers

Question 5

king cotton

Answer 5

nickname for what the called the US when they mass produced cotton

Question 6

Missouri compromise

Answer 6

the magic line at 36*30, Missouri slave state, Maine free state, balance restored with slave and free states

Question 7

emacipation proclimation

Answer 7

freedom of all slaves in the south temporarly (not offically)

Question 8

cotton gin

Answer 8

invention to seperate the seeds in the cotton faster

Question 9

bleeding kansas

Answer 9

pro and anti slavery forces fought in kansas

Question 10

john brown raiud on harper ferry

Answer 10

led a raid at harpers ferry. john brown believed that it was gods will to end slavery