Abolitionist Movement
This reform movement was built around achieving personal holiness and is responsible for launching many of the reform movements of the Antebellum period.
2nd Great Awakening
This nationalist/imperialist notion, coined by John O'Sullivan, helped encourage & justify American westward expansion.
Manifest Destiny
Many of the early explorers to the American West went in search of riches harvesting this valuable resource and selling them to eastern markets.
Furs
This failed proposal forbade slavery in all new western lands.
Wilmot Proviso
The New England Emigrant Aid Company supported the abolitionist cause by helping abolition-minded settlers settle into this territory, which led to violence, called this.
Kansas
"Bleeding Kansas"
Though a northerner, Pierce (D) won the election of 1852 because of his support to uphold this piece of the Compromise of 1850.
Fugitive Slave Law
Harriet Tubman supported the abolitionist cause by supporting the escape of runaway slaves along this.
Underground Railroad
This president began the process of annexing Texas into the Union in his lame duck session.
John Tyler
This notoriously difficult overland trail brought settlers to settle new lands across the continent to the Pacific Coast.
Oregon Trail
Name 2 balancing elements (Abolitionist & pro-slavery) of the Compromise of 1850 which was struck to avoid a Southern secession movement.
California - Free State
Utah & New Mexico - With Popular Sovereignty
Texas - Border resolved & $10M
D.C. - Slave trade banned
Fugitive Slave Law - Enforcement in the North
This NY abolitionist responded to this pro slavery group's violence in the west by traveling to Pottawatomie Creek KS in order to make a violent abolitionist statement.
John Brown
Border Ruffians
Backed by this former one-term president, this political party formed around opposition to slavery in the west and reserving land for white settlers in the West.
Martin van Buren
Free Soil
This 2nd Great Awakening preacher eventually left his preaching practice and started an abolitionist newspaper called "The Liberator".
William Lloyd Garrison
The southern portion of Texas (to the Rio Grande) and the Mexican Cession were granted to the US by this war treaty.
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
This inventor developed the telegraph which allowed for fast electric communication across the North American continent.
Samuel Morse
This 1852 book helped northerners gain an understanding of the life of a southern slave, and significantly influenced the next few American elections (especially the election of 1860).
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
Finding him unworthy of a formal duel, Preston Brooks (SC) defended his uncle's honor by beating this Massachusetts Senator with a cane on the floor of the Senate.
Charles Sumner
This political party formed in response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act and became a political home for Free Soilers, Northern Whigs, and radical abolitionists.
Republican Party
This Abolitionist worked alongside William Lloyd Garrison before branching out and starting his own publication, "The North Star".
Frederick Douglas
In order to balance the inclusion of Texas as a slave state, the Treaty of 1846 resolved this territorial boundary dispute ("54' 40" or Fight!").
Oregon
Gold brought these second-wave settlers to California in a gold rush migration.
'49ers
The Know-Nothing party galvanized Nativists who resented both: 1) Irish migrants who fled Ireland because of this push factor, and 2) Chinese migrants who flocked to America because of this pull factor.
The Great Famine
California Gold Rush
The Dred Scott decision favored this "Natural Right" of American citizens over the right of liberty for slaves in America.
Property
Because of the splintering of the Whigs, this Democrat ran away with the South in the election of 1856.
James Buchanan
This transcendentalist opposed the Mexican-American War & contributed to the Abolition movement with his persuasive essay "On Civil Disobedience".
Henry David Thoreau
President Pierce's contribution to Manifest Destiny was this land acquisition of a flat(ter) region in the Southern Rockies.
Gadsden Purchase
The Gadsden purchase was originally made in order to create a relatively easy path to build this overland route.
Transcontinental Railroad
Stephen Douglas introduced this disastrous bill which allowed two would-be states to determine the issue of slavery on their own terms.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
John Brown raided this federal arsenal to arm VA slaves in an attempt to spark a civil war.
Harper's Ferry
This Democrat's less than full-throated support of the Dred Scott decision split his party North & South, and swung the 1860 election in favor of this candidate, his Republican adversary.
D - Stephen Douglas
R - Abraham Lincoln