Territorial Acquisitions
This was the year the U.S. purchased the Louisiana Territory.
What is 1803?
This was the overall reason compromises were necessary.
He was one of the most important transcendentalist poets.
Who was Ralph Waldo Emmerson OR Henry David Thoreau?
The U.S. believed the border with Mexico was at this river.
What is the Rio Grande?
This region depended on cash crops for its economy.
What was the South?
This document decided how new states would be added to the U.S.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
This person created most of the major compromisers.
Who was Henry Clay?
This is breaking the law as a form to protest.
What is civil disobedience?
This document ended the Mexican-American War and gave the U.S. the Mexican Cession Territory.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This event led to a large increase in Irish immigration to the U.S.
What was the potato famine?
This was the population required for a territory to apply to be a state.
What is 60,000?
This compromise set the boundary for free and slave states at the 36th Parallel.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This style of painting focused on landscapes and nature.
What is the Hudson River School?
The Mexican-American War was part of this American belief.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Immigrants from this country came to the U.S. because of religious persecution.
What was Germany?
This territory was added to the U.S. to make a more direct railroad route.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
This compromise included the Fugitive Slave Act to meet the demands of slave states.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Henry David Thoreau did this to protest the Mexican-American War.
What is refused to pay a tax?
This event made the land in California acquired after the Mexican-American War more valuable.
What is the Gold Rush?
The North wanted this from the federal government.
What are high tariffs?
This was the major goal of acquiring the Louisiana Purchase.
What is controlling the Mississippi River?
OR
What is getting control of New Orleans?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act decided that whether a state would be slave or free using this method.
What is popular sovereignty/voting?
This was one cause of transcendentalism.
What is the Industrial Revolution OR the Second Great Awakening?
The Mexican Cession gave the U.S. control of this geographic feature.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This Supreme Court Case was a result of sectionalism and made it illegal for Congress to make laws about slavery.
What was Dred Scott v. Sandford.