More Dudes and Chicks Legal Stuff Vocab Random US History Stuff Dudes and Chicks

$100 Urban slave from Maryland who escaped and eventually established his own newspaper

$100 Frederick Douglass

$200 Inventor of the steel plow

$200 John Deere

$300 Slave from Missouri who sued for his freedom, but lost his case

$300 Dred Scott

$400 President of the United States and the man most responsible for the annexation of Texas

$400 James K. Polk

$500 Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a novel that showed the evils of slavery

$500 Harriet Beecher Stowe

$100 The most prolific leader of the Underground Railroad

$100 Harriet Tubman

$200 President who opposed the Radical Republicans’ plans for Reconstruction, and was subsequently impeached

$200 Andrew Johnson

$300 Northern abolitionist who used violence to further his cause at incidents such as the Pottawatomie Massacre and Harpers Ferry

$300 John Brown

$400 Leader of the transcendentalist movement

$400 Ralph Waldo Emerson

$500 Slave and preacher who led a slave revolt that attacked 4 plantations in Virginia and killed approximately 60 whites

$500 Nat Turner

$100 Passed to make former slaves citizens

$ th Amendment

$200 Provided for the use of popular sovereignty in two territories; led to violent clashes in both territories

$200 Kansas Nebraska Act

$300 Guaranteed that the right to vote could not be denied based on race, color, or previously being a slave

$ th Amendment

$400 Stated that any slave caught in any state, including the North, had to be returned to his/her owner

$400 Fugitive Slave Act

$500 Provided for the forced movement of Natives from their traditional homelands east of the Mississippi River to land west of the Mississippi

$500 Indian Removal Act

$100 Movement to ban slavery

$100 Abolitionism

$200 Right to vote

$200 Suffrage

$300 Formal withdrawal from a union

$300 Secession

$400 Belief that it was the right and duty of the US to settle land from the Atlantic to the Pacific

$400 Manifest Destiny

$500 Philosophical movement that emphasized living a simple life and the belief that truth can be found in nature

$500 Transcendentalism

$100 Turning point of the Civil War because it was the last time that the Confederacy tried to invade the North

$100 Gettysburg

$200 Set of discriminatory laws passed in the South to prevent African Americans from exercising rights

$200 Black Codes

$300 Law that admitted California as a free state, and allowed Utah and New Mexico to decide issue of slavery themselves

$300 Compromise of 1850

$400 Document that freed slaves in states in rebellion, but actually had very little effect on slavery

$400 Emancipation Proclamation

$500 Belief, popular in the South, that states could ignore laws that were unconstitutional

$500 Nullification