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100
What was the name of the act that issued warrants for runaway slaves?
What is the fugitive slave act
100
Which political figure was responsible for preserving the Union in 1850 with his compromise?
Who is Henry Clay
100
This term originating in the 1840s reffered to the support of the expansion of the United States through the acquisition of Texas, Oregan, and parts of Mexico, and the term was also used in the 1890s in reference to the conquest of foreign lands not meant to be incorporated into the Unites States
What is manifest destiny
100
This treaty between the United States and Britain, which signed in 1842, settled the controversy over the Maine-Canada boundary.
What is the webster-ashburden
100
What cause was popular sovereignty created to advance?
What is slavery
200
Which was the northern boundary of the United States after the Mexican American war?
What is the 49th parallel
200
What was the name of Van Buren’s part of the Democratic Party
Who were the Barnburners
200
This trail, which began at western border of the Missouri and followed the Kansas River and the perverse, muddy plate past Fort Laramie to the Rockies, helped circulate movement in the West and served as a long and difficult journey
What is the Oregon trail
200
Fought Between the United States and Mexico from May 1846 to February 1848, this war greatly added to the national domain of the United State
What is the Mexican War
200
With stiff competition from Henry Clay and others, this man won the Presidential election of 1884
Who was Polk
300
Who did President Polk send to act as a peace commissioner to the Mexican government?
Who is Nicholas Trist
300
Who proposed the Wilmont Proviso?
Who is David Wilmont
300
In the 1840s, many Americans settled in these two far West territories which coincidently belonged Mexican and British Territories
What is CA and OR
300
This battle in which a force of 6,000 Mexican soldiers were held off for ten days by 187 men under the lead of Colonel William B. Travis to be defeated in the end is commonly referred to as
What is the Alamo
300
What was Jame K. Polks nickname
What is Young Hickory
400
What was the attitude of Americans following the defeat of Mexico?
What is a. Appalled b. Disgusted c. Ambivalent d. Jingoistic
400
After the death of William Henry Harrison, who became President and inherited and was forced to deal with the many problems of the country like the issue of Texas and Mexcio
Who is Tyler
400
The United States wanted to claim the territory of Texas from what country?
What is Mexico
400
How much was payed for the small amount of land won after the mexican war?
What is $15 million
400
Mexico was willing to give the United States the area for a reasonable sum of money true or false
What is false
500
Who was president during the Mexican American War?
Who is polk
500
Tyler took the place of whom?
Who was William Henry Harrison
500
To assure that he would win Texas, Tyler appointed this man to Secretary of State due to his strong relations to the South
Who was Van Buren
500
Explain Calhoun's greatest benefit during the 1800's
Various
500
Who owned the California mill where gold was discovered?
Who is James Marshall
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