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- Mexico City granted land to him
- He would bring 300 American families to Texas
Who is Stephen Austin?
- The belief that Americans had the right to spread across the continent
What was the Manifest Destiny?
- Novelist who described the terrors within slavery
- Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
- Period where thousands of people came to California searching for gold
What was the Gold Rush?
- Maine border established, British will no longer interfere with American ships
What was the Webster-Ashburton treaty?
- Commander in Chief of Texas after they gained independence
- Took his small army to retreat to the East
Who is Sam Houston?
- Proposal that refused slavery in any territory gained from Mexican War
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
- Published a book that claimed that white farmers suffered most from slavery
- Agreement between America and Mexico , America was to give $10,000 to Mexico for land
What was the Gadsen Purchase?
- Treaty that ends the Mexican-American War, $15 million to cede California and New Mexico territory
What was the treaty of Guadelupe-Hidalgo?
- He invented the telegraph, this lead to fame and wealth
- Was given $30,000 to support his invention
Who is Samuel Morse?
- Term that refers to rule by the people
What is popular sovereignty?
- Defended slavery as a natural part of heirarchical societies
Who was George Fitzhugh?
- Secret routes to help escaping slaves reach freedom in North/Canada
What was the underground railroad?
- Law stating that Northern states will forcibly return escaped slaves to the South
What was the fugitive slave law?
- Captain that wanted to take part in the overthrowing of Mexican rule
- Helped raise the California Republic Bear Flag
Who is John C. Fremont?
- Known as the deadly conflict between anti and pro slavery citizens in Kansas and Nebraska
What was"Bleeding Kansas"?
- Coined the idea of social darwinism
- Known for beating Sumner with his cane
Who was Charles Sumner? Who was Preston Brooks?
- A case based on keeping slavery legal
- Dred Scott was a black slave who fought to sue for his rights and freedom
- Africans were not seen as American citizens
- Created to calm the tensions created by the expansion of slaves into western territories
What was the Compromise of 1850?
- Militant Abolitionist
- sentenced to be hanged after leading a raid at Harper's Ferry
Who is John Brown?
- People who opposed expansion of slavery into western territories
Who were free soilers?
- Opened Japan to the West with the Treaty of Kanagawa
Who was Commodore Matthew Perry?
- War between America and Mexico regarding the annexation of Texas and it's border
What was the Mexican War?
- Law that gave the choice to citizens in Kansas or Nebraska if they wanted to allow slavery
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?