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The idea that it is America's God given right and duty to spread American people and ideals from sea to shining sea.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This decision was passed in 1820 and closed most of the Louisiana Purchase off to slavery.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Kentucky Senator who wrote the Missouri Compromise & the Compromise of 1850.
Who is Henry Clay?
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This was discovered in California in 1849, leading to increased westward migration
What is gold?
How did the Mexican Cession lead to growing tensions between the North & the South?
It led to tensions about the expansion of slavery in new territories.
This amendment was passed on January 31st, 1865, abolishing slavery in the U.S.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This book was written by abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe & had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This political party opposed slavery in the territories because they did not want to compete with slave labor.
What is the Free Soil Party?
Who was the president of the Union during the Civil War?
Who was the president of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Who is Jefferson Davis?
The Fugitive Slave Act was the MOST controversial aspect of this legislative decision.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
A period of violent conflict in Kansas Territory from 1854 to 1861 between pro- and anti-slavery groups
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
This decision allowed California to enter into the Union as a free state and applied the principle of "popular sovereignty" to the land gained after MX-AM War.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Allowing those who live in a state / territory to vote themselves whether or not to allow slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
This president oversaw the annexation of Texas in 1845.
Who is James K. Polk?
This act established the principle of popular sovereignty in two territories, repealing the Missouri Compromise.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Which part of the Compromise of 1850 did the South like best?
Which part of the Compromise of 1850 did the North like best?
Passing new fugitive slave laws
Adding California as a free state
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
This 1846 proposed resolution would prohibit slavery from all territory acquired from Mexico and highlighted the increased sectional tensions of the time.
What was the major dispute between the U.S. and Mexico during the Mexican-American War?
What is boundary dispute? - Whether the Texas border lay at the Nueces River (as Mexico claimed) or the Rio Grande (as the United States claimed).
This was formed in 1854 after the Kansas-Nebraska Act was introduced.
What is the Republican Party?
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do? (be specific)
Freed the slaves in the Confederate states (states in rebellion)
This president oversaw the Gadsden Purchase in 1854 and was known as a "dark horse".
Who is Franklin Pierce?
What was the push to have no slavery in new northern territories that would become Illinois, Michigan and Ohio?
What is the Northwest Ordinance (1787)?
What is the Ostend Manifesto?
This was a plan to purchase Cuba from Spain as a potential source for more slave territory. However, it was never passed due to public outcry.
This guy killed 5 pro-slavery advocates during "Bleeding Kansas" & would later attempt to spark a massive slave revolt in Harpers Ferry, VA.
Who is John Brown?