Politics
This individual is responsible for the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay
For enslaved people this is was the highest form of resistance
Running away
Tariffs were favored by which region of the US
North
The states that were brought into the nation under the Compromise of 1820 were
Maine and Missouri
This is idea of the US expanding the entire continent of North America
Manifest Destiny
President Polk promised what (4) actions to win the presidency in 1844?
Settle Canadian border
Bring California into the US
Develop independent treasury
Leave in 4 years
Women in 1848 met in Seneca Falls to draft what document?
Declaration of Sentiments
The slogan for Polk elections was 54'40" or Fight, what is that in reference to? What was final geographic location?
Oregon/Washington Border between Canada and the US settled at the 49th parallel
The Compromise of 1850 consisted of what (3) items?
Admission of California
Stopping Slave Trade in D.C.
Fugitive Slave Act
Polk sent a special envoy to settle the border dispute of Texas to Mexico, what was the envoy called?
Slidell's Mission
What novel was written to convince Northerners that slavery was morally wrong by humanizing enslaved people?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This proposed forbid slavery in the lands acquired by the Mexican American War?
Wilmot Proviso
During "Bleeding Kansas" where were the "border ruffins" coming from and for what purpose?
Missouri
Pro Slavery
The Kansas Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise and established what precedence?
Popular Sovereignty
This political party drew in the Whigs, Democrats, Know Nothings, and Free Soilers?
Republicans
This individual stage a raid on the Federal Arsenal at Harper's Ferry to arm the slaves to overthrow slavery?
John Brown
California during the Mexican American War led this revolt in order to gain independence (and gold) from Mexico?
Bear Flag Revolt
This purchase was the bottom portion of Arizona and New Mexico in order to build the railroad?
Gadsden Purchase
The Supreme Court in this case ruled that an enslaved person who lives in a free state for a period of time is still enslaved.
Dred Scott v. Sandford
In the election of 1860 Lincoln ran as the Republican candidate what happened to the Democrat Party?
2 Candidates - Stephan Douglass and John Breckenridge
Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass published what (2) anti-slavery newspapers?
The Liberator
The North Star
The Pro Slavery argument compared these northerners to the southern enslaved people?
Industrial Workers in the North
This state has the border of the Rio Grande, however, had the border of the Nuances River?
Texas
The President that preceded Lincoln and is accused of treason because he allowed southern states to secede?
President Buchanan