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the region west of the Mississippi River, especially during the westward expansion of the 19th century
The West
What did the followers of Andrew Jackson call the Election of 1824 after John Quincy Adams won the Presidency through a vote in the House of Representatives?
a corrupt bargain
Who was the Mexican General defeated by the Texans at the Battle of San Jacinto, securing Texas independence?
Santa Anna
Who was the radical abolitionist who attempted to start a slave insurrection by leading a group of 18 whites and blacks to seize the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia?
John Brown
7th President
Andrew Jackson
the belief that the United States was endowed by God with a mission to spread its republican government and brand of freedom and Christianity to less fortunate and uncivilized peoples; it was used to justify U.S. territorial expansion
manifest destiny
What two principles characterized the Jackson Presidency?
limited government
strong executive
What was the 1846 Congressional resolution that proposed that slavery would be banned in all territory acquired from Mexico?
the Wilmot Proviso
What is the term for letting residents of western territories determine whether to allow slavery?
popular sovereignty
6th President
John Quincy Adams
the law that allowed any U.S. citizen or legal immigrant to claim 160 acres of land for free by living on it for 5 years and improving it in some way
the Homestead Act
What new political party pushed for commercial development, demanded an activist government with social reforms and promotion of business?
The Whig Party
What was James K. Polk's campaign platform in 1844?
a platform of manifest destiny that claimed both Texas and the entire Oregon Territory
What was the loosely organized route by which fugitive slaves, largely through their own wits and courage, escaped to freedom in the northern United States and Canada?
the Underground Railroad
11th President
James K. Polk
invented the mechanical reaper which improved wheat harvesting efficiency 200-800%
Cyrus McCormick
What is the principle (argued by South Carolina) that individual states had the authority to nullify (overrule) federal legislation?
nullification
What were the two flaws of the Compromise of 1850 that proved it to be little more than an evasion of the slavery issue?
1) The ambiguity of popular sovereignty intensified the differences between northerners and southerners on the slavery issue
2) The Fugitive Slave Act gave new legal protection to slavery
What political party consisted of free-soil advocates from the north and west and promoted a platform of stopping the western spread of slavery; their slogan was “Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men”?
10th President
John Tyler
the leader of the Mormons who led them to the Great Salt Lake Valley where they sought to establish their “Promised Land” in what soon came to be the U.S. territory of Utah
Brigham Young
List three leaders of the women's rights movement.
Lucretia Mott
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
List the five parts of the Compromise of 1850
1) California became a free state
2) The Texas boundary was set to its current limit; Texas was compensated for giving up the New Mexico Territory
3) The territories of New Mexico and Utah were organized on a basis of popular sovereignty
4) The fugitive slave law was strengthened
5) The slave trade was abolished in the District of Columbia
What were the two conclusions of the Supreme Court case Dred Scott v. Sanford?
slaves were not US citizens and thus could not sue in court
the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional because Congress did not have the authority to ban slavery in the territories
15th President
James Buhanan