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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT APUSH CHAPTER 16, 17
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Question 1: A movement to end slavery.
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Abolitionism Question 2: Proposed the Wilmot Proviso, suggesting the Mexican cession lands be closed to slavery. Failed in Senate.
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David Wilmot Question 3: Fiction that played on readers' emotions to swell up the abolitionist movement.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin Question 4: Founded in 1817 for the purpose of transporting Blacks back to Africa.
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American Colonization Society
Question 5: Sent by Polk as an envoy to Mexico City to make an offer to purchase California for $25 million. He was coldly turned away.
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John Slidell Question 6: Gave America all Mexican territory from TX to CA that was north of the Rio Grande.US hd to pay $15 million to Mexico. $3.5 million in debts from Mexico to the US were absolved as well.
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Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo Question 7: Reverend of 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.
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Elijah P. Lovejoy Question 8: A black abolitionist, wrote Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World in 1829 and advocated a bloody end to white supremacy.
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David Walker Question 9: Sent to negotiate an armistice with Mexico, at cost of $10,000. Then negotiated the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo.
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Nicholas P. Trist
Question 10: Anti-slavery newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison.
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The Liberator Question 11: Inflamed against slavery. Preached against slavery and wrote a pamphlet, "American Slavery As It Is."
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Theodore Dwight Weld
Question 12: Virginian who was more of a Democrat than a Whig, 10th President of the United States.
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John Tyler Question 13: Author of "The Liberator"; in sense, firing one of the first shots of the Civil War.
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William Lloyd Garrison Question 14: Brothers who were founders of anti-slavery abolitionist groups. Donated money to underground railroad.
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Arthur and Lewis Tappan Question 15: Election was seen as a "mandate for the Manifest Destiny." Called "Young Hickory," spponsored by former President Andrew Jackson.
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James K. Polk
Question 16: California movement against Mexican authorities
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Bear Flag Revolt
Question 17: Semiliterate preacher who led a slave revolt in 1831.
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Nat Turner
Question 18: Founded in 1833, rallied to Garrison's standards.
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American Anti-Slavery Society Question 19: Gave Britain their desired Halifax-Quebec route for a road while America got a bit more land north of Maine.
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Webster-Ashburton Treaty
Question 20: Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Harriet Beecher Stowe Question 21: An escaped black, who was a great speaker and fought for the Black cause despite being beaten and harassed. Autobiography: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.Increasingly looked to politics to solve the slavery problem.
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Frederick Douglass Question 22: Led 4,000 men to march fromt the Nueces River to the Rio Grande. "Old Rough and Ready."
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Zachary Taylor
Question 23: Took California and proclaimed the "Bear Flag Republic."
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John
- Fremont
Question 24: Name for pre-civil war South.
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Cotton Kingdom Question 25: Became an abolitionist party. By 1848 many members left to join the Free-Soil Party.
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Liberty party Question 26: Second anti-Jackson party. In favor of national development. Split into two parties later.
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Whigs