The belief that America should expand and get the entire west continent; used by Democrats in the 1840s to justify the war with Mexico
What is Manifest Destiny?
100
Elected as the first and third President of the Republic of Texas
Who is Sam Houston?
100
A package of five bills passed.(California becomes a free state. Enforced Fugitive Slave Act. Utah and New Mexico adopt the principle of popular sovereignty. Slave trade banned in Washington D.C. New Mexico claims land previously belonging to Texas.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
100
300,000 people traveling to California in 1849 in search of wealth
What is the California Gold Rush?
200
Invented by John Deere to loosen the hard soil
What is Steel Plow?
200
Where the Government is created and sustained by the consent of its people.
What is popular sovereignty?
200
Mexican political leader, general, and president. Leader of Mexican Army at the Battle of the Alamo.
Who is Santa Anna?
200
Peace Treaty between the U.S. and Mexico to end the Mexican-American War. Cedes Mexican territory to the U.S.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
200
The war that resulted in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
What is Mexican-American War?
300
Used by Cowboys to keep their cattle in a contained area
What is barbed wire?
300
Would have banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War or in the future
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
300
The "Father" of Texas. Led the first successful colonization of the region.
Who is Stephen Austin?
300
Region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased by the United States
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
300
Created the territories of Nebraska and Kansas. Had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing settlers in those territories to determine through Popular Sovereignty
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
400
Cheap home made of soil
What is a sod house?
400
An idea from Stephen Douglas that stated that despite the court's ruling, slavery could be prevented from any territory by the refusal of the people living in that territory to pass laws favorable to slavery.
What is the Freeport Doctrine?
400
Senator from Illinois who was the Democratic Nominee in the 1860 election. Advocated popular sovereignty.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
400
A treaty resolving several border issues between the United States and the British North American colonies
What is the Webster-Ashburton Treaty?
400
A network of secret routes and safe houses used by slaves in the South to escape to free states
What is the Underground Railroad?
500
A device used to send long distance messages
What is the telegraph?
500
Aimed at resolving the secession crisis in the Deep South.The compromise would have guaranteed the permanent existence of slavery in the slave states by reestablishing the free-slave demarcation line drawn by the 1820 Missouri Compromise.
What is the Crittenden Compromise?
500
American abolitionist and author. Her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was a depiction of life for African-Americans under slavery
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
500
James Polk sought the British owned Oregon Country, and compromised for the territory south of the 49th parallel.
What is 54 40 or Fight?
500
A series of violent political confrontations involving anti-slavery and pro-slavery citizens of Kansas over the conflict of whether Kansas would enter the Union as a free state or slave state