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Famous compromiser from Kentucky named "Great Compromiser" before the Civil War
Who is Henry Clay.
Where the slave trade was abandoned with the Compromise of 1850?
What is Washington D.C.?
They stood for the business minded of the northeast. They stood for protective tariffs for those businesses. They opposed expansion and they opposed. They won the presidency twice between 1840 and 1848, but each time that ended with unexpected deaths in the executive office. Name this party of Old Federalist.
What is the Whig Party?
Following the Mexican War, Mexico ceded vast amounts of territory to the US. Name this territory surrendered to the US that included California and most of the American Southwest.
What is the Mexican Cession?
It reared its ugly heard many times during this pre-civil war period, once when Missouri petitioned for statehood, again when California wanted to enter the Union, and even before that when the Wilmot Proviso was proposed. Name this issue seemed never to go away during this age of westward expansion
What is slavery?
Americans like their war heroes, and like many others, he was elected president following the Mexican War. Name this Whig who, like Harrison before him, would also die in office.
Who is Zachary Taylor
The US claimed it would take THIS global position by force if Britain did not give in to US demands for its Northern border?
What is the 54 40 line of latitude?
They saw slavery as an evil that needed to stop in its path. They attempted to pass legislation that would do just that, stop the growth of slavery into the American west. Name this new third party of the mid nineteenth century that wanted to contain slavery where is was ... in the South.
What is the Free-Soil Party?
He led the largest land army in the Western hemisphere and still he was not able to stop Texas from winning its independence from Mexico. Name this Mexican dictator and tyrant who lost the Mexican War after defeating Texas' defenders at the Alamo.
Who is General Antonio de Lopez de Santa Anna?
Americans read it in the writings of Frederick Douglas and again they read it in the Liberator, a newspaper by William Lloyd Garrison. Name this DEMAND by Douglas, Garrison, and many more during this Antebellum Period.
What is abolition?
Elected in 1844, this president promised to finish the conquest of the Continental US as he encouraged the era of Manifest Destiny
Who is James K. Polk?
The famous battle the would be remembered forever in Texas battle for Independence from Mexico?
What is the Alamo
The slave Eliza ran off looking for her love on another plantation. Simon LeGree captured her and brought her home. The South's peculiar institution seemed never portrayed so vividly as it was in Uncle Tom's Cabin. Name the little lady who was said by Lincoln to have started this great Civil War.
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
They were looking for the Mountain of Gold in California, but were denied their share when the territory began to extract heavy taxes against their claims and to exploit them for their labor. Name this ethnic group who would find themselves eventually targeted by immigration restrictions.
"American blood spilled on American soil." These words were heard again and again throughout the American nation after a skirmish between Mexicans and Americans along the claimed US southern border. Name the president who used these words in his request for a declaration of war.
Who is James K. Polk
Slave who escaped form Maryland and became a famous abolitionist.
Who is Frederick Douglas
Territory that petitioned to enter the Union in 1850, resulting in another compromise
What is California
There were four provisions of the Compromise of 1850. Of those provisions, one dealt with future states coming into the Union and how they would choose whether to endorse slavery or not. Name the term denoting how a state could allow its citizenry to choose for itself the state's stance on slavery.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
Mexico claimed that the Nueces River was the Northern border of their country after the Texas Revolution. Unfortunately for them, they lost that claim in the Mexican-American War. Name the border were they forced to accept as the northern most border of their country.
What is the Rio Grande?
Down the road another 40 years, this same American desire for new territory would be known as Imperialism and would gain such territory as Puerto Rico and the Hawaii. However, in its first run, this American desire was known by another name. Name this American desire to control the continent from ocean to ocean during the 1840s that was driven by its own ethnocentrism.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Known as Illinois' Little Giant, this senator helped to steer the Compromise of 1850 through Congress long before ever losing the presidency to the bigger giant in 1860.
Who is Stephen Douglas
Site in California where Gold would be discovered?
What is Sutter's Fort (Sutter's Mill)
The Mexican War was coming to a close as was the Bear Flag Rebellion in California. Suddenly, there was gold in d'em d'ar hills, or it least in the American River. Name the Football team whose name is derived from that gold discovery in California
What are the San Francisco 49ers?
In exchange for California as a free state, the South was promised this in return. However, the North did not seem to live up to its end of the bargain as these laws were rarely enforced. Name these oft' neglected laws.
What are Fugitive Slave Acts
America wanted the Oregon Territory and they wanted it bad. Recite the phrasing that could be heard again and again that denoted America's desire for this territory.
What is 54 40 or Fight?