Missouri Compromise
Manifest Destiny
Texas/Oregon
Compromise of 1850
Kansas/Nebraska Act
100
These were the states added as a part of the Missouri Compromise.
What is Missouri and Maine?
100
The 1872 painting by John Gast, American Progress, depicting an angel leading settlers westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
100
The conflict the United States was drawn into due to President James K. Polk's desire to expand US territory.
What is the Mexican-American War?
100
It required that runaway slaves had to be returned.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act.
100
The Supreme Court’s ruling in the Scott v. Sanford case prompted Republicans to declare that if their presidential candidate was elected in the 1860 election, the Republican Party would do this.
What is abolish slavery altogether in the United States.
200
This territory was designated for non-slave states.
What is south of the 36^30 line?
200
The President of the United States that gained the territory labeled the Mexican Cession
Who is James Polk?
200
The region acquired as a result of the Mexican Cession in 1848.
What is Region 3?
200
This area abolished the slave trade but allowed slaveholding to continue.
What is Washington D.C.
200
This heightened tensions between the Northern and the Southern states.
What is a result of John Brown's 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry, Virginia?
300
Was maintained by allowing Missouri to become a slaveholding state and allowing Maine to become a free state.
What is an equal balance of power in the Senate?
300
The growing regional division caused by the U.S. expansion that fueled the growing debate over slavery, by raising the pressing question of whether new states being admitted to the Union would allow slavery or not.
What is sectionalism?
300
The popular slogan that led Polk to victory.
What is "54 or fight?
300
The Compromise of 1850 required Texas to give up claims to which territory.
What is New Mexico?
300
Slavery in Kansas was to be decided by popular sovereignty, leading to this conflict between slave owners and white supremacists and abolitionists and small farmers
What is Bleeding Kansas?
400
The restriction that was placed on the extension of slavery by the Missouri Compromise.
What is the 36^30 line?
400
Settlers believed it to be the destiny of the United States to expand west to the Pacific Ocean, justifying their actions at the expense of American Indians.
What is the role Manifest Destiny played in the westward expansion of the United States.
400
This discovery was a source of concern to Mexico due to the influx of settlers from the U.S.
What is gold in California?
400
The debates that resulted in the Compromise of 1850 were primarily about this issue.
What was the balance of free and slaveholding states in the United States
400
The creation of two opposing governments in the Kansas territory and a rush of settlers moved into Kansas who supported slavery in the territory.
What is a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
500
It was a continual struggle to maintain an equal balance between admitting territories as either slave or free states.
How did the issue of slavery make westward expansion more complicated?
500
It effectively ended the Mexican-American War.
The United States agreed to pay Mexico $15 million.
Mexico abandoned all of its claims to territory in Texas.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
500
The domestic development that was caused by the Mexican-American War.
What is the increase in tensions between antislavery and proslavery activists?
500
This indicated that southern states were most concerned about the status of slavery at the federal level because although it allowed California to become a free state but it strengthened federal fugitive slave laws.
What is the southern states acceptance of the Compromise of 1850?
500
In this court case, the Supreme Court ruled Congress had no Constitutional authority to make laws regarding slavery in new territories, thus nullifying the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850.
What is the Scott v. Sanford case.