2. Questions Game Subject: Unit VII Key Terms

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4. 1. Mason-Dixon line A surveyor’s mark that had established the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania in colonial times. By the 1830s, the boundary divided the free North and the slave South.

5. 2. Cotton kingdom Term for the South that reflected the dominance of cotton in the southern economy.

6. 3. Chivalry The South’s romantic ideal of male-female relationships.

7. 4. Plantation belt Flatlands that spread from South Carolina to east Texas and were dominated by large plantations.

8. 5. Wilmot Proviso Proposal put forward by Representative David Wilmot of Pennsylvania in August of 1846 to ban slavery in territory acquired from the Mexican-American War.

9. 6. Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854 law that divided Indian territory into Kansas and Nebraska, repealed the Missouri Compromise, and left new territories to decide the issue of slavery on the basis of popular sovereignty.

10. Reference Roark, J.L. (2013). The American promise: A concise history (5 th ed.). Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s.