Mexican-American War
"Compromise" Over Slavery
Important Figures
Acts and Treaties
Trivia!
100
Mexico claimed that _____ was still its territory
Texas
100
Set of laws designed to balance free and slave state interests
Compromise of 1850
100
President who the south feared and who fought for the unity of our country
100
Linked eastern market with western territories, promoted the Transcontinental railroad
Pacific Railway Acts
100
Nickname for confederate general Thomas Jackson
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
200
President who declared war on Mexico
James K. Polk
200
Act that required the return of runaway slaves back to their "owners"
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
200
Required the return of all slaves
Fugitive Slave Act
200
Offered 160 acres of land to settlers on the condition that they developed it
The Homestead Act
200
Who lead a diplomatic Mission to Japan? (what was it called)
Matthew Perry's Expedition to Japan
300
What treaty gave America vast western territories?
ex. California, Arizona, New Mexico
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
300
Official name of the vast territories acquired by America
Mexican Cession
300
The "Great Compromiser"
Henry Clay
300
Established trade relations with Japan, introducing it to the global economy
Treaty of Kanagawa
300
What were established to "Americanize" the Native Americans??
Indian Boarding Schools
400
A controversial document wanted to ban slavery in the newly acquired territories?
The Wilmot Proviso
400
Name one prominent figure that fought to preserve the Union
1. Henry Clay
2. Daniel Webster
3. John C. Calhoun
400
Called Slavery a "positive good" for Southern Society
John C. Calhoun
400
Created a National Currency and implemented the first income tax to fund the war
Legal Tender Act
400
Sought to limit immigrant rights by proposing restrictions on naturalization and banning Catholics from holding office, highlighting anti-immigrant sentiments
Know-Nothing Party
500
What forcibly relocated the Native Americans
The Long Walk
500
Name the 2 of the three parts of the Compromise of 1850
1. Admit Cali as a free state
2. Establish Utah and New Mexico with popular sovereignty to decide on slavery
3. Stricter fugitive slave law to appease southern concerns
500
Important revivalist preacher who was responsible for stressing the importance of individual responsibility and growth (Second Great Awakening)
Charles Grandison Finney
500
Northern abolitionists saw this act as a betrayal of the Missouri Compromise
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
500
Paper that demanded the immediate freeing of all slaves
The Liberator