MANIFEST DESTINY & WESTWARD EXPANSION
What was the belief that America should expand west called?
Manifest Destiny
What treaty ended the Mexican-American War?
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
What religious revival inspired reforms?
The Second Great Awakening
What 1850 law forced the return of escaped enslaved people?
Fugitive Slave Act
What Union strategy aimed to blockade the South?
The Anaconda Plan
What group suffered displacement from westward expansion?
Native Americans/ Indengenous People
Who was the “Father of Texas”? Led the first group of settlers to Texas
Stephen F Austin
What philosophy focused on nature and individualism?
BONUS: Who wrote Walden and promoted civil disobedience?
Trancendentalism
Henry David Thoreau
What violent crisis erupted in Kansas?
Bleeding Kansas
What destructive march broke Southern morale?
Sherman's March to Sea
What event brought 300,000 people to California?
The Gold Rush
Who led Mexico during the Texas Revolution?
Antonio López de Santa Anna
What famous abolitionist wrote The North Star?
Frederick Douglass
What party wanted to stop slavery’s expansion?
Acceptable: Free Soil Party, Northern Democrats, Republicans
What major turning-point battle took place in 1863?
The Battle of Gettysburg
What trail brought thousands of settlers to the Northwest?
Oregon Trail
What dispute sparked the Mexican-American War?
The annexation of Texas or the border dispute of the Rio Grande
Which religious group migrated to Utah?
BONUS: Who led them there?
Brigham Young
What act repealed the Missouri Compromise?
The Kansas- Nebraska Act
Who surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse?
Robert E Lee
What revolt briefly made California independent?
The Bear Flag Revolt
Which Mexican-American War general later became president?
Zachary Taylor
What 1848 meeting launched the women’s rights movement?
BONUS: Name an influential person who attended.
The Seneca Falls Convention
Acceptable: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Frederick Douglass, Martha C Wright
What idea allowed settlers to decide whether a territory/ state would permit slavery?
Popular Sovereignty
What Union general later became president?
Ulysses. S Grant