Social Reforms
Which movement was focused on ending the institution of slavery?
Abolition
Under the Missouri Compromise, Missouri entered as a slave state, and what state entered as a free state?
Maine
What is the name of the famous trail that saw over 300,000 Americans travel west into new territory?
The Oregon Trail
Which US President is most closely tied to the concept of Manifest Destiny?
James K Polk
What was the most constant concern within the United States during the period of Manifest Destiny?
Balance of power between slave states and free states (south and north)
What movement was focused on limiting, or eliminating, the use of alcohol?
Temperance
What state was admitted into the Union as a free state in the Compromise of 1850?
California
Who was the abolitionist who fought during Bleeding Kansas, and then attempted an infamous raid on the armory at Harper's Ferry, Virginia?
John Brown
Known as the Great Compromiser, who played a key role in negotiating both the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850?
Henry Clay
The Battle of the Alamo was fought during which conflict?
Texas Revolution
Who was the escaped slave who became a celebrated orator and statesman, even serving as an advisor to President Lincoln?
Frederick Douglas
The Missouri Compromise was also known as the Compromise of 18__
1820
Which act gave popular sovereignty to the Kansas and Nebraska territories, despite both being in territory designated free state territory by the Missouri Compromise?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Who won the presidential election of 1860?
Abraham Lincoln
How were the Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act similar?
All tried to settle disputes over slavery's expansion
What was the name of the conference where Women's Suffrage advocates created the Declaration of Sentiments, in support of women's rights?
Seneca Falls Convention
What line forbade slavery North of it's starting point, in all lands acquired during the Louisiana Purchase?
36 30 line
What Supreme Court cases determined that Black people were not citizens of the United States, and that any law limiting slavery was unconstitutional?
Scott v Sanford
Who was President of Mexico, and the lead general of the Mexican army?
General Santa Anna
What do we call the land gained by the United States in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, that ended the Mexican-American War?
Mexican Cession
Which state was the first state to secede from the Union in 1860?
South Carolina
What did the Compromise of 1850 allow Southern states to do for the first time?
Send patrols into free states to pursue runaway slaves
What is the definition of sectionalism?
Loyalty to your region over loyalty to the country as a whole
David ______ was a Congressman who proposed legislation that would ban slavery in the Mexican Cession. It was defeated, but became a huge Southern talking point.
Wilmot
What is Manifest Destiny?
The belief that America was ordained to rule the continent from coast to coast