Mexican American War
This was the United States President at the time of the Mexican American War.
Who is James Polk?
This compromise created a border that said anything north would be a free state and anything south would be a slave state... with the state is is named after being the exception.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Resistance to slavery was categorized as ______________ or ________________.
What is covert or overt?
This reform movement fought for the end of slavery
What is the abolitionist movement?
This abolitionist staged a raid on Harpers Ferry
Who is John Brown?
The Mexican American War broke out after 16 U.S. troops patrolling this river were shot by Mexican soldiers.
What is the Rio Grande river?
Along with the Compromise of 1850, this act was created to stop runaway slaves.
This man escaped slavery by pretending to be a sailor to board a train in Baltimore, then went on to become a national leader of the abolitionist movement.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
The women's rights movement focused mainly on gaining this right
What is women's suffrage?
This act abolished the Missouri Compromise
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This treaty ended the Mexican American War
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
The proper term for "rule by the people"
What is popular sovereignty?
This was a network of people, both whites and free blacks, who worked together to help runaways from slaveholding states travel to the North
What is the Underground Railroad?
This reform movement fought against the sale and consumption of alcohol.
What is the temperance movement?
Abraham Lincoln was a part of this political party
What is Republican?
This purchase created modern day border of southwestern United States with Mexico
What is The Gadsen Purchase?
This admitted California to the Union as a free state, and said Utah and New Mexico would vote for having or not having slavery.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This person led over 300 people to freedom on the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Dorothea Dix was a leader in this reform movement
What is prison reform?
The Dred Scott decision ruled that this was unconstitutional
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This is the belief that white Americans were divinely ordained to settle the entire continent of North America
What is Manifest Destiny?
The mini civil war that occurred as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska act
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This book tells the story of an enslaved person who saves a young girls life and is said to have helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This person argued for the creation of free common schools in the education reform movement
Who is Horace Mann?
Dred Scott argued he should be free because he had lived in this free territory
What is Wisconsin?