Acts, Treaties, and Compromises
A law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska Territory to choose whether to allow slavery.
What is Kansas Nebraska Act (1854)?
People belonging to an Anti-Jackson political party that generally stood for national community and an activist government.
Who are Whigs?
1800's belief that Americans had the right to spread across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
Who is John Brown?
US vs. Mexico; US gained California, Arizona, N. Mexico.
What is Mexican War (1846-1848)?
Devised by Clay - California was free state, stricter Fugitive Slave Law, ended Slave Trade in DC.
What is Compromise of 1850?
A belief that ultimate power resides in the people.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
A system of secret routes used by escaping slaves to reach freedom in the North or in Canada.
What is Underground Railroad?
Author of the antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
A senator was beaten with a cane in congress for his criticism of slavery.
What is Sumner-Brooks?
1848 treaty ending the Mexican-American War.
What is Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Bill that would ban slavery in the territories acquired after the War with Mexico.
What is Wilmot Proviso?
A period from 1848 to 1856 when thousands of people came to California in order to search for gold.
What is Gold Rush?
The commodore of the U.S. Navy who compelled the opening of Japan to the west.
Hint: 54 40' or fight!
Who is Commodore Matthew Perry?
US paid Mexico $10 million for a strip of land in Arizona and New Mexico to complete the transcontinental railroad.
What is Gadsden Purchase (1853)?
Compromise to protect slavery where it existed with the extension of the 36-30 line to California
What is Crittenden Compromise (1860)?
People who opposed expansion of slavery into western territories.
Who are Free Soilers?
Term referring to bloodshed over popular sovereignty in a particular western territory.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
Southern intellect and lawyer who defended slavery by condemning northern "wage slavery".
Who is George Fitzhugh?
Seven debates between Lincoln and Douglass before election of 1860 - mostly over issues of slavery.
What is Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)?
Ended border issues between the US and British North America (Maine and the Great Lakes).
What is Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842)?
People belonging to the political party of the mid-1800s, officially known as the American Party, that opposed immigration.
Who are Know-Nothings?
Location of federal arsenal that John Brown raided to get guns to arm slaves.
What is Harper's Ferry, VA?
First president of the Republic of Texas.
The case that ruled that slaves were property and could not sue.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)?