People seeking gold during the California gold rush.
Who were the forty-niners?
100
the first US conflict to not be fought on American soil
What Was The Mexican- American war?
100
The expansion of the U.S. throughout the nation.
What was Manifest Destiny?
100
one resource that was out west in California that led people to expand there.
What is gold?
200
the Mexican general during the Mexican-American war
Who was Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna?
200
a group of American pioneers who set out for California in a wagon train.
what was the Donner party?
200
The two parties the Texas revolution was fought between.
who were American settlers in Texas, and the Mexican Government?
200
The expansion of the U.S. throughout the nation.
What was Manifest Destiny?
200
the series of violent political confrontations concerning whether Kansas would become a free or slave state through popular sovereignty.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
300
the enslaved African american who went to court pursuing his freedom after his owner died.
Who was Dred Scott?
300
A group of people devoted to helping African Americans escape through the underground railroads.
Who were abolitionists?
300
The battle in which General Lopez held off Santa Anna’s army for 13 days.
what is The Battle of the Alamo?
300
Created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska allowed popular sovereignty for white .
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
300
This person made 13 trips to the South to help free over 70 slaves, on a trail known as the Underground Railroad.
who is Harriet Tubman?
400
the abolitionist/ author who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
400
A minor but influential political party in the pre-Civil War period of American history that opposed the extension of slavery into the western territories.
What is the free- soil party?
400
a treaty signed on February 2nd, 1848 to end the Mexican-American war.
What is The Treaty of Guadalupe- Hidalgo?
400
He won the election of 1848 and was part of the whig party.
Who is Zachary Taylor?
400
this would have banned slavery in territory that was acquired from Mexico.
What is The Wilmot Proviso?
500
the columnist that used the term “Manifest Destiny” to promote the annexation of Texas in 1845.
Who was John L. O’Sullivan?
500
A political party that was shaped by Manifest destiny.
What is the republican party?
500
The territory gained from Mexico after the Mexican- American war.
What is All land stretching west of Texas to the Pacific Ocean?
500
Texans wanted independence from the Mexican government after a decade.
How did the Texas Revolution come about?
500
African Americans were not allowed to become citizens of the United States.
What was the Dred Scott decision made by Chief Justice Roger Taney?