People
Who was Stephen Douglas?
This path led hundreds of thousands to settle out west.
What is the Oregon Trail?
What is Manifest Destiny?
How the issue slavery was to be determined in the Kansas and Nebraska territories
What was popular sovereignty?
One of the inventions created during the Gold Rush.
What is the sluice box/long tom/Pelton wheel?
This congressman wrote the Compromise of 1820 AND the Compromise of 1850.
This city was occupied, ending the Mexican-American War.
Where is Mexico City?
The rapid expansion of this territory's economy and population forced Congress to admit it as a state in 1850.
What is California?
This previous legislature was repealed by the Compromise of 1850.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
The number of Forty-niners that arrived in California for the Gold Rush.
What is 300,000?
This President annexed Texas in 1845.
Who was John Tyler?
This port city was captured by General Winfield Scott, marking a turning point in the Mexican-American War.
Where is Veracruz, Mexico?
The initial spark of the Mexican-American War. (Similar to Texas-NM)
What were disputes about Texas' borders?
This act (part of the Compromise of 1850) enraged abolitionists in the North.
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
This rebellion led to the formation of the unofficial California Republic in 1846.
What was the Bear Flag Revolt?
This congressman proposed any new territory acquired from Mexico to be admitted as a free state.
Who was David Wilmot?
This is the town where Sutter's Mill was located.
Where is Coloma, California?
This large acquisition of land after the Mexican-American War fueled debates about the admission 0f free vs. slave states.
What was the Mexican Cession?
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War.
What was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
How the Wilmot Proviso fared in Congress.
What is, passed the House and failed the Senate?
This man discovered gold at Sutter's Mill in 1848.
Who was James Marshall?
This state was involved in a border dispute with Texas, one of the issues resolved in the Compromise of 1850.
What is New Mexico?
This construction project led to the organization of the Kansas and Nebraska territories in the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What was the Transcontinental Railroad?
These territories were organized as part of the Compromise of 1850.
What were the Utah and New Mexico territories?
This is where Charles Bennett exposed the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill.
Where is the Benecia Hotel?