Expansion Causes and Effects
Allowed for settlers to obtain public domain land for their own use.
What are the Homestead Acts?
Attempted to solve the issue of maintaining balance of free and slaves states in congress.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
A proposal to prohibit slavery in the territory acquired by the United States at the conclusion of the Mexican War.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
This state requested to enter the Union in 1849.
What is California?
The number of times Lincoln and Douglas had debates before their election.
What is seven?
Caused a large influx of settlers to come to California in 1848 – 1855.
What is the California gold rush?
Kentucky senator that proposed the compromise of 1850 in a speech.
Who is Henry Clay?
If a commissioner in a trial for an escaped slave's free status ruled in favor of the slave, he was paid this sum of money.
What is $5?
Before the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, slave owners still had this right.
What is reclaiming runaway slaves?
The state where Lincoln and Douglas were competing for a senatorial spot.
What is Illinois?
Finalized the shape of the contiguous United States through an addition of land from Mexico.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
Was admitted along with Missouri as a free state in order to preserve balance in the US Congress.
What is Maine?
This legislation was violated by the permitting of popular sovereignty by the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The winner of a border dispute brought on by the Compromise of 1850.
What is New Mexico?
This caused increased interest during the presidential election of 1860.
What are parades and rallies?
Completed in 1869, allowed for easier travel between the cities in the east and California.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
Implemented to allow settlers to decide if they wanted their state to be free or slave-owning, in places such as in Kansas and Nebraska.
What is the free-soil policy?
The violent results of the violation of the Missouri Compromise between pro-slavery and anti-slavery Americans.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
Given to Utah and New Mexico in the Compromise as well as the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What is popular sovereignty?
Douglas was not fond of Lincoln's political views. This caused Douglas to call Lincoln a series of negative insults including these.
What is a radical or a threat to the Union?
Workers came from here to San Francisco to find fortune.
What is China?
Was the boundary line for the Missouri compromise.
What is the 36º30’ parallel?
Dred Scott lost his supreme court case. It was stated that he was not a free man due to his owner's time in free states because he was this.
What is property?
A slave trade was taking place via this location in the United States prior to 1850.
What is the District of Columbia/Washington DC?
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?