Mexican War
Party that led the opposition to the war
Whig
This event ended all hope for delay on the issue of territorial government in the West
California Gold Rush
Out of the British games of Cricket and Rounders, Alexander Cartwright developed this game which increased in popularity throughout the Civil War
baseball
He went to jail rather than pay the taxes supporting the Mexican War
H.D. Thoreau
War which transformed Colonia/British relationship, when its debts required new taxes
French and Indian, Seven Years, or Great War for Empire
Territory gained by the US as a result of the war with Mexico
CA, TX, and NM
Chief Southern demand (and achievement) in the Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Law
Largely symbolic action of Lincoln to free some slaves in September 1862
emancipation proclamation
This indecisive Union commander ran against Lincoln in 1864; he lost
G.B. McClelland
Adams administration laws which suppressed speech against the government
Alien and Sedition Acts
Polk ordered his army into a disputed area, hoping to provoke war with Mexico; it worked
Zac Taylor
This political party demanded NO slavery in any of the territories gained from Mexico
Free Soil or Liberty
Southern financing of the war brought this economic catastrophe
inflation
He warned in the 1840s that territorial expansion would re-open the question of slavery and thus was a bad idea
Henry Clay
Ben Franklin’s failed plan for intercolonial union in 1754
Albany Plan
This general led the campaign to capture Mexico city and end the war
W. Scott
Method used to decide slavery in NM and UT territories
Popular sovereignty
DD this organization encouraged women to act as nurses in the war, transforming the profession from one dominated by men, to one dominated by women
US Sanitary Commission
His demand to keep slavery out of the territories captured from Mexico was never approved by Congress
D. Wilmot
Jefferson’s law that fully separated Church and State in Virginia in 1786
Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom
This American negotiator failed to get all that Polk had hoped for in the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Nicholas Trist
He succeeded in passing the Compromise of 1850 where Clay had failed
Stephen Douglas
She sought to win the vote for women, as well as free the slaves during the war
Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth C. Stanton
DD he ran as a Free Soil candidate in 1848, winning 10% of the vote, and proving the strength of the movement.
Martin van Buren
Meeting in response to the Intolerable Acts, this group strengthened intercolonial cooperation before the American Revolution
First Continental Congress