Territorial Expansion
The belief that the United States had a God-given right to expand Westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This legislation provided the first compromise on slavery in the United States by prohibiting the expansion of slavery north of the Ohio River.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
This war broke out over a dispute relating to the Northern border of Maine 2838-1839.
What is the Aroostook War?
The idea that states should decide whether or not to allow slavery in new territory.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The largest issue of debate concerning westward expansion.
What is slavery?
This compromise ended the dispute over the land gained by the United States in the Mexican Cession. It included a Fugitive Slave Act, admitted California as a free state, and eliminate the slave trade in the District of Columbia.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This requested President James K. Polk to provide Congress with the exact location upon which blood was spilled on American soil, as Polk had claimed in 1846 when asking Congress to declare war on Mexico.
What are Lincoln's Spot Resolutions?
Required Northern citizens to assist in the capture and return of runaway slaves to the South.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
"Terrorist" leader who marched 2,000 men into Kansas, hacking to death 5 proslaveryrites.
Who is John Brown?
In this example of a military initiative to expand the United States territorially, Zachary Taylor was an American general who fought against Santa Ana.
What is the Mexican-American War?
This violence resulted from the decision in the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act to allow popular sovereignty to decide the slave/free status of territories.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
Admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state and also prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of the 36° 30´ latitude line.
What is the Compromise of 1820? (Missouri Compromise)
"Hero of Buena Vista"
Who is Zachary Taylor?
A political party founded on the idea of keeping slavery out of future states and territories by all means necessary.
What is the Free-Soil Party?
One goal of US territorial expansion was to increase world trade and gain access to this body of water.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This Supreme Court Case ruled that slaves were not citizens and had no right to sue in court, and stated the government could not outlaw slavery in a new territory if the people wanted it.
What is the Dred Scott decision? (Scott v. Sanford)
Signed on February 2, 1848, ended the war between the United States and Mexico.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Father of Popular Sovereignty.
Who is Lewis Cass?
This congressman hit Senator Charles Summer over the head with a cane, resulting in bleeding Kansas.
Who is congressman Preston Brooks?
This territory was gained as the result of a diplomatic initiative with Great Britain, rather than war ("54'40 or Fight!") and gave the United States gained access to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Oregon?
During this 1858 event, as part of his campaign for Senate, Abraham Lincoln expressed his views on slavery. During the same campaign, he made his "House Divided" speech: "A house divided against itself cannot stand."
What are the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
Former American War general who served during the Mexican American War. He was also nominated as Presidential Candidate for the Whig party in 1852, losing to Franklin Pierce.
Who is Winfield Scott?
The secret plan for Polk to offer $120 Million for Cuba.
What is the Ostend Manifesto?
James Buchanan defeated this Republican Presidential Candidate in the 1856 election.
Who is John C. Fremont?