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Reform, Rumblings, R
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What Supreme Court case was decided in 1857? | Dred Scott v Sandford |
| Who was responsible for the raid at Harpers Ferry? | John Brown |
| What did southerners fear if Lincoln became president? | a ban on slavery |
| What state was the first to secede n 1860? | South Carolina |
| What state was the last state to secede from the union in 1861? | North Carolina |
| Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired and by whom? | On Fort Sumter by South Carolina troops |
| What does secede mean? | It means to leave the Union. |
| Which man from Guilford County helped set up the Underground Railroad? | Levi Coffin |
| Abraham Lincoln helped create what political party? | Republican |
| Name three of the five outcomes of the Compromise of 1850. | California became a free state; slavery was abolished in Washington, DC; Utah and New Mexico territories would decide through popular sovereignty about slavery; stronger fugitive slave laws; Texas's debts were paid off. |
| reform | change for the better |
| compromise | agreement between two sides to give and take in order to reach an agreement. |
| Whig Party | political party whose members favored banks and internal improvements. |
| Archibald D Murphey | NC reformer |
| What reforms did Archibald D. Murphey fight for? | public education; internal improvement; and constitutional reforms |
| Missouri Compromise | a plan to admit Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state |
| Andrew Jackson | 7th president of the US |
| Indian Removal Act is also known as what? | Trail of Tears |
| What was the main motivator for the Indian Removal Act? | more farm land |
| literary fund | fund set up by NC legislature to establish public schools |
| Fugitive Slave Codes or Laws | codes or laws enforcing people to return runaway slaves. |
| Who mailed himself to Philadelphia with the help of an abolitionist friend? | Henry "Box" Brown |
| abolition | the movement to end slavery. |
| John Brown | A radical abolitionist who led the raid on Harpers Ferry. |
| Harpers Ferry | The site of a raid led by John Brown. |
| Levi Coffin | He was born in Guilford County, NC and became known as "The Father of the Underground Railroad" |
| What was the name of the nation formed by the 11 southern states who seceded from the Union? | The Confederate States of America |
| Who was the President of the Confederate States? | Jefferson Davis |
| What was the name of the first railroad connecting two NC towns? | Wilmington and Weldon Railroad |
| Who was the first NC governor to be elected directly by the people? | Edward Bishop Dudley |
| Trains run by "Iron Horses" are actually what? | Wood burning locomotives. |
| What moved the first cargo on rail road tracks? | mules |
| Where does the North Carolina gold rush begin in 1799? | Reeds Gold Mine |
| In the early 1800's, NC earned what nickname? | The "Rip Van Winkle" state |
| Name three ways NC was slow to develop in the early 1800's | socially, politically and economically. |
| Who was the President when the Indian Removal Act was signed? | Andrew Jackson |
| Manifest Destiny | the idea that america was destined to expand from the Atlantic to Pacific oceans |
| Dorothea Dix | opened a hospital for the mentally ill in NC |
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