Terms
Terrifying 2,000 mile route people took to move out into hotter, dustier places?
What is Oregon Trail?
The 1848 discovery of this precious metal in California drew thousands west.
What is Gold?
The overall 'Solution' to the issues of slavery in the states.
What is Civil War?
Opposed slavery's expansion to protect "free labor."
What is The North?
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This land purchase provided territory for a southern railroad.
What is Gadsden Purchase?
Many settlers moved west because of the availability of this type of land.
What is Cheap and/or Fertile Land?
California admitted as a free state. Enacted a stricter Fugitive Slave Act to please the South.
What is Compromise of 1850?
Argued that banning slavery violated their property rights.
What is The South?
The belief that the U.S. was divinely ordained to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Loyalty to a region (North, South or West) over the whole nation.
What is Sectionalism?
Many settlers moved farther west for freedom of _______?
What is religion?
This line banned slavery north of it under the Missouri Compromise.
What is the 36°30' parallel?
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The purpose of Manifest Destiny.
What is to spread American institutions, democracy, and culture?
Conflict over the Texas border and western lands.
What is Mexican-American War?
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Land gained via treaty including CA, NV, UT, and AZ.
What is Mexican Cession?
The gaining of this land ultimately increased tension and pushed to what?
What is (Civil) War?
What problems did Manifest Destiny lead America too?
What is rapid territorial growth, increased slavery conflict, made lives harder for Natives?
This 1820 agreement admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is Missouri Compromise?
These diseases were major killers along the Oregon Trail.
What is Cholera and/or dysentery?
(BONUS) To satisfy the South, this stricter law required escaped enslaved people to be returned.
What is Fugitive Slave Act?
This group of people struggled to keep the nation under control.
What is Congress?
This person pushed people into wanting Manifest Destiny.
Who is James K. Polk?