Expansion and War
The chief labor force used by American workers in the Far West
What are the African Americans, Spanish, Hispanics, Indigenous Americans and/or Chinese (one of these).
Believed the ownership of slaves was a fundamental American poperty right, hence no US government could ban or restrict it
Who is John C. Calhoun
This court case involved a slave who was suing his master's widow for freedom.
What is the Dred- Scott Decision?
The effect of the Mexican government's ban on slavery, demand immigrants convert to Roman Catholicism, and arrest of Stephen Austin?
What is the Texas Revolt?
Location where the first gold pebbles were discovered?
What is Sutter's Mill?
New fugitive slave law and New Mexico and Utah could choose to enter the Union as slave states
What are the terms of the 1850 Compromise benefiting the South
For northerns this proved the most controversial and hated part of the Compromise of 1850
What is the new, improved 1850 Fugitive Slave Law
America's territorial demands in the Treaty of Guadulupe Hidalgo:
What are California, Texas and all the lands between them (e.g. AZ, NM, Nevada, Utah. . .)?
Spain first organized its empire in California using
What are Catholic Missions
Prohibited slavery in any of the new states arising from the Mexican Cession and extended the Missouri Compromise line to the west coast.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
The Northern Senator whose "Crimes against Kansas" Speech provoked a Southern representative to viciously assault him
Who is Charles Sumner
This political party divided on the eve of the 1860 election
What is the Democrat Party?
Chief opponents of Mexican-American War:
(At least two) Who were Transcendentalists, Abraham Lincoln, Henry David Thoreau, Northern Whigs, Abolitionists, Antebellum Reformers)
Lewis Cass's strategy for solving the national controversy over the slave status of new states coming into the Union
What is Popular Sovereignty
Formed when America's political parties ignored the slavery issue in 1848 election, opposed the future expansion of slavery to new states
What is the Free-Soil Party?
This period of prolonged sectional violence has often been called "the dress rehearsal for the Civil War"
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
Ralph Waldo's famous prophecy about the Mexican War
"Mexico will poison us."
The two most popular jobs most Americans pursued in the West?
What are mining or ranching?
The epic political speaking contest that convinced the South neither of the 1860 Democrat and Republican presidential contenders had their back?
What are the Lincoln Douglas debates?
America's 1852 and 1856 incompetent & pro-southern presidents
Who are Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan
The new party which nominated a compromise candidate John Bell promising to upholding the U.S. Constitution & law and order
What is the Constitutional Union Party