Mexican American War
The idea that Americans were ordained by God to expand West
What is Manifest Destiny?
Gold was discovered in this U.S. state in 1848
What is California?
This book described the evils of slavery
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Seven debates that took place in Illinois during the Senate election of 1858 were collectively known as
What are the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
What is the Battle of Sumter?
Treaty that ended the war
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
California applied to be this type of state creating controversy
What is a free state?
Which two territories were allowed to vote using popular sovereignity about entering as a slave or free state
What are Kansas and Nebraska?
Court case involving a slave who sued for his freedom because he was taken to live for two years in free terriority
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
Pledged to free all slaves in Southern states
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Proposed that slavery be banned from all territories acquired from Mexico
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This led to the Pottawatomie Creek Massacre
What is Bleeding Kansas?
John Brown and his followers attempted to take charge of the Federal arsenal at
What is Haper's Ferry, VA?
This laid out the goals of the Civil War
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This led to the California Gold Rush
What is the Mexican-American War?
The writer of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The speech that Charles Sumner gave that led to Preston Brooks beating him with a cane
What is "The Crime Against Kansas"?
By way of the Scott case, the Supreme Court also rules what major piece of legislation unconstitutional
What is the Missouri Compromise (1820)?
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
Texas's border was set along this river
What is the Rio Grande?
This led to massive opposition in the northern states over the Fugitive Slave Law
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This undermined the Missouri Compromise and contributed to emergence of the Republican Party.
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
The Lincon-Douglas debates focused on what topic
What is slavery expanding into western territories?
This ultimately led to the ending of Reconstruction
What is the Compromise of 1877?