Westward Expansion
This ideology supported America's western expansion. It argued that westward expansion was America's divine right or God-given
What is Manifest Destiny?
This law, part of the Compromise of 1850, required the return of escaped slaves to their owners.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850?
This 15th president of the United States, who served from 1857 to 1861, is often criticized for his inability to prevent the secession of Southern states in the years leading up to the Civil War.
Who is James Buchanan?
This 1858 series of debates was concerned with slavery in the territories and involved two politicians from Illinois.
What are the Lincoln-Douglas Debates?
This 1859 raid, led by John Brown, was done with the intention of initiating a slave-based armed revolt by storming a federal arsenal in Virginia
What is Harpers Ferry
This treaty marked the end of the Mexican-American War and saw the U.S. take ownership of territories such as California and New Mexico.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This network of secret routes and safe houses helped enslaved people escape to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This failed pro-slavery constitution in Kansas caused controversy and was ultimately rejected.
What is the Lecompton Constitution?
This doctrine, espoused by Stephen Douglas, proposed that territories could exclude slavery despite the Dred Scott decision.
What is the Freeport Question/Doctrine?
This political party, formed in the 1850s, opposed the expansion of slavery into new territories and went on to nominate Abraham Lincoln for president
Who are the Republicans?
This 1854 law repealed the Missouri Compromise, incorporated popular sovereignty into decisions about slavery in new territories, and intensified antagonism between the North and South.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This abolitionist novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe fanned anti-slavery sentiment in the North.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This term describes the violent clashes in Kansas between pro- and anti-slavery settlers during the 1850s.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This book by Hinton R. Helper said that slavery was bad for nonslaveholding whites in the South.
What is The Impending Crisis of the South?
This 1854 land acquisition, made through negotiations between the U.S. and Mexico included land that allowed for a southern transcontinental railroad.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
This compromise maintained balance between free and slave states through admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. (DAILY DOUBLE)
What is the Missouri Compromise (1820)?
This government, established by 11 Southern states that had seceded from the Union, was formed in 1861 and fought to preserve slavery during the Civil War.
What are the Confederate States of America?
This political party opposed the extension of slavery into western territories.
What is the Free Soil Party?
This recession in 1857 intensified conflict between the North and South over tariff and trade policy. (NEGATIVE IF WRONG)
What is the Panic of 1857?
This 1850 treaty between the U.S. and Britain was an attempt to prevent hostilities regarding a Central American canal.
What is the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty?
This 1848 event led to a massive influx of settlers to California in search of wealth, significantly contributing to the state's rapid admission into the Union.
What is the California Gold Rush?
This abolitionist led an armed raid on Harpers Ferry in an attempt to spark a slave rebellion.
Who is John Brown?
This Supreme Court case ruled that African Americans could not be citizens and invalidated the Missouri Compromise.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This election featured four candidates and resulted in the first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln.
What is the Election of 1860?
This political party that broke apart in the 1850's over the question of slavery consisted of those for it vs. those against expansion.
What are the Whigs?