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| 1161055414 | 1793 invention of Eli Whitney's cotton gin | Growing cotton became wildly profitable and easier, and more slaves were needed. | 0 | |
| 1161055415 | King Cotton | South's one-crop economy | 1 | |
| 1161055417 | Denmark Vesey | Slave who led a rebellion in 1822 in Charleston | 2 | |
| 1161055418 | Gabriel | Slave who led a rebellion in 1800 in Richmond Virginia | 3 | |
| 1161055419 | Nat Turner | Semiliterate preacher who led a revolt in 1831 | 4 | |
| 1161055420 | American Colonization Society | Founded in 1817 for the purpose of transporting Blacks back to Africa | 5 | |
| 1161055421 | Republic of Liberia | Founded in 1822 for Blacks to live. | 6 | |
| 1161055422 | Theodore Dwight Weld | American abolitionist inspired by Charles Grandison Finney whose pamphlet "American Slavery As It Is" (1839) inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. | 7 | |
| 1161055423 | William Lloyd Garrison | On January 1st, 1831, he published the first edition of The Liberator triggering a 30-year war of words and in a sense firing one of the first shots of the Civil War. | 8 | |
| 1161055424 | Wendell Phillips | A Boston patrician known as "abolition's golden trumpet" who refused to eat cane sugar or wore cotton cloth, since both were made by slaves. | 9 | |
| 1161055425 | David Walker | Black abolitionist, wrote Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World in 1829 and advocated a bloody end to white supremacy. | 10 | |
| 1161055426 | Sojourner Truth | A freed Black woman who fought for black emancipation and women's rights | 11 | |
| 1161055427 | Martin Delaney | One of the few people who seriously reconsidered Black relocation to Africa, also fought for Black rights. | 12 | |
| 1161055428 | Frederick Douglass | The greatest Black abolitionist at the time. Was an escaped black who was a great speaker and fought for the Black cause despite being beaten and harassed. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, depicted his remarkable struggle and his origins, as well as his life. Douglass increasingly looked to politics to solve the slavery problem. He and others backed the Liberty Party in 1840, the Free Soil Party in 1848, and the Republican Party in the 1850s. | 13 | |
| 1161055429 | Gag Resolution | Strict rule passed by prosouthern Congressmen in 1836 to prohibit all discussion of slavery in the House of Representatives | 14 | |
| 1161055430 | Reverend Elijah P. Lovejoy | Lived in Alton, Illinois, who impugned the chastity of Catholic women, had his printing press destroyed four times and was killed by a mob in 1837; he became an abolitionist martyr. | 15 | |
| 1161055431 | John Tyler | Virginian gentleman who was a lone wolf. He did not agree with the Whig party, since the Whigs were pro-bank and pro-protective tariff, and pro-internal improvements, but hailing from the South, he was not. Tyler was really more of a Democrat. | 16 | |
| 1161055432 | Webster-Ashburton Treaty | Gave Britain their desiredHalifax-Quebec route for a road while America got a bit more land north of Maine. | 17 | |
| 1161055433 | Slavocracy | Term the North used to describe the Slaveholding South and its "schemes" to gain more slave-land. | 18 | |
| 1161055434 | Manifest Destiny | A concept that stated that the U.S. was destined to expand across the continent and get as much land as possible. | 19 | |
| 1161055435 | 1844 Election results | (170 to 105 in the Electoral; 1,338,464 to 1,300,097 in the popular) by 5000 votes in New York. | 20 | |
| 1161055436 | Polk's 4-point mission | Lower the tariff Restore the independent treasury (put U.S. money into non-government banks) Clear up the Oregon border issue Get California | 21 | |
| 1161055437 | Stephen W. Kearny | Led U.S. operations and 1700 troops from Leavenworth to Santa Fe | 22 | |
| 1161055438 | John C. Fremont | Leader of the Bear Flag Revolt in California and first Republican Party candidate to run for President in 1856 | 23 | |
| 1161055439 | Zachary Taylor | "Old Rough and Ready". A general, he fought into Mexico, reaching Buena Vista, and repelled 20,000 Mexicans with only 5000 men, instantly becoming a hero. Became 12th President | 24 | |
| 1161055440 | General Winfield Scott | Led American troops into Mexico City., Led the U.S. forces' march on Mexico City during the Mexican War. He took the city and ended the war. | 25 | |
| 1161055441 | Nicholas Trist | Sent to negotiate an armistice with Mexico at a cost of $10,000 (Santa Anna took the bribe and then used it for his defenses). | 26 | |
| 1161055442 | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | February 2, 1848, which -Gave to America all Mexican territory from Texas to California that was north of the Rio Grande. This land was called the Mexican Cession since Mexico ceded it to the U.S. -U.S. only had to pay $15 million to Mexico for it. -$3.5 million in debts from Mexico to the U.S. were absolved as well. In essence, the U.S. had forced Mexico to "sell" the Mexican Cession lands. | 27 | |
| 1161055443 | Robert E. Lee | A former union general that joined the South after Virginia seceded. He was in charge of the Confederate Army, and led it to many victories. | 28 | |
| 1161055444 | Ulysses S. Grant | American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War. | 29 | |
| 1161055445 | David Wilmot | Congressman who proposed the amendment that would have outlawed slavery from Mexican territories | 30 | |
| 1161055446 | Wilmot Proviso | 1846 proposal to outlaw slavery in the territory added to the United States by the Mexican Cession; passed in the House of Representatives but was defeated in the Senate | 31 | |
| 1161055447 | General Lewis Cass | the Democratic party nominee in 1848 who was a veteran of the War of 1812; he was known as the father of popular sovereignty when it came to the extension of slavery | 32 | |
| 1161055448 | William H. Seward | Young senator from New York, was flatly against concession and hated slavery, but he didn't seem to realize that the Union was built on compromise, and he said that Christian legislators must adhere to a "higher law" and not allow slavery to exist; this might have cost him the 1860 presidential election. | 33 | |
| 1161055449 | Millard Fillmore | Successor of President Zachary Taylor after his death on July 9th 1850. He helped pass the Compromise of 1850 by gaining the support of Northern Whigs for the compromise. | 34 | |
| 1161055450 | Compromise of 1850. | Includes California admitted as a free state, the Fugitive Slave Act, Made popular sovereignty in most other states from Mexican-American War. | 35 | |
| 1161055451 | Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 | Stated (1) fleeing slaves couldn't testify on their own behalf, (2) the federal commissioner who handled the case got $5 if the slave was free and $10 if not, and (3) people who were ordered to help catch slaves had to do so, even if they didn't want to. | 36 | |
| 1161055452 | William Walker | Grabbed control in Nicaragua and proclaimed himself president, then legalized slavery, but a coalition of Latin American states overthrew him. | 37 | |
| 1161055453 | Commodore Matthew C. Perry | Steamed into the harbor of Tokyo in 1854 and forced them to open up their nation. Perry's Treaty of Kanagawa formerly opened Japan. This broke Japan's centuries-old traditional of isolation, and started them down a road of modernization and then imperialism and militarism. | 38 | |
| 1161055454 | Treaty of Kanagawa | 1854 treaty between Japan and the US. Japan agreed to open two ports to American ships | 39 | |
| 1161055455 | Jefferson Davis | An American statesman and politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history from 1861 to 1865 | 40 | |
| 1161055456 | Kansas-Nebraska Act | Created Nebraska and Kansas as states in 1854 and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty. | 41 | |
| 1161055457 | Senator Stephen Douglas | Proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act | 42 |
