Moving West
P5A Stuff
Making Life Better or not?
Hasan's Favorites
People you should Know
100
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?
100
Allowed California to enter the Union as a free state
What is the Compromise of 1850?
100
Government act intended to increase population in the West through free land. (160 acres)
Homestead Act
100
Favorite Sweet
Anything with sugar
100
President that annexed Texas
Pres. Polk
200
Reasons to move West
Jobs/Economic opportunities
Gold Rush
200
Allowed for the TRR in the Southwest
Gadsden Purchase
200
Constructed to help populate the west, allowed goods to be deliver to any place of the country, connected East to West
Transcontinental Railroad
200
Favorite Season
Spring or Fall
200
Dubbed the term Manifest Destiny
Who is John O'Sullivan?
300
Main issue regarding new territory gained from the Mexican cession
What is the expansion of slavery?
300
This book increased sectionalism between the North and South.
What is UTC?
300
Americans not wanting immigrants
What is nativism
300
Favorite musical artist
Roger Nelson aka Prince
300
Made life for Texans miserable
Gen. Santa Anna
400
The idea that states should be able to vote on the legalization of slavery in their territory
What is Popular Sovereignty?
400
Which party was founded during the 1850's that advocated for the stop of the spread of slavery
Republican party
400
Protecting American made goods
Tariff
400
Favorite new word
Breviloquent
400
Fought in the War of 1812, Mex-Amer War, and lead the Civil War
Gen. Winfield Scott
500
The component of the Compromise of 1850 the South like best
What is the new fugitive slave laws?
500
This 1846 proposed resolution would prohibit slavery from all territory acquired from Mexico and highlighted the increased sectional tension of the time
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
500
Resolved the "Lumber Jack" war
Webster-Ashburton Treaty
500
Favorite Student
All of you!
500
Caned Senator Charles Sumner for speaking ill of his cousin.
SC rep. Preston Brooks