Southern Slavery
Monroe’s Administration
Manifest Destiny I
Manifest Destiny II
Manifest Destiny III
100
This was the nickname the North gave to Southern slavery
What is the The Peculiar Institution
100
After the War of 1812 this surged all over America well into Monroe’s administration.
What is Nationalism
100
Whose presidential platform in 1844 campaigned on the idea of manifest destiny?
Who is James K. Polk
100
Congressman Abraham Lincoln supported a proposition to find the exact spot where American troops were fired upon, suspecting that they had illegally crossed into Mexican territory.
What is Spot Resolutions
100
After the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed, the U.S. realized that it had accidentally left portions of the southwestern stagecoach routes to California as part of Mexico and needed a southern route around the Rockies
What is the Gadsen Purchase
200
This referred to the economy of the South that centered around this certain crop
Who is King Cotton
200
With the help of Andrew Jackson’s military victories, Monroe purchased this land from Spain
What is Florida
200
It forbade the introduction of slavery into territory acquired from Mexico
What is the Wilmot Proviso
200
- Anglo-Saxon racial superiority justified American absorption of inferior peoples and their lands - new lands would extend the domain of free government and free enterprise - the will of God - America had a specially ordained mission in the world
What is Manifest Destiny
200
This was the nickname of the Texas Republic and as a result it only had one star on it’s flag
What is the Lone Star Republic
300
He led a slave revolt in Virginia in 1831which resulted in the deaths of 60 whites.
Who is Nat Turner
300
This established the boundary between the United States and Canada.
What is The Convention of 1818
300
What political party would have opposed the idea of Manifest Destiny?
Who are the Whigs
300
- Pay $15 million to Mexico - Set the Texas boundary at the Rio Grande - Yield California to the United States - Yield New Mexico to the United States
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
300
Founder and editor of the New York Tribune. He popularized the saying "Go west, young man." He said that people who were struggling in the East could make the fortunes by going west.
Who is Horace Greeley
400
This party was formed on a platform favoring the Wilmot Proviso and free land for settlers. They did not oppose slavery, just the spreading of it
What is the Free Soil Party
400
This was the first depression in the United States
What is Panic of 1819
400
What did the Mexican government encourage in Texas in the late 1820s and early 1830s
What is American Settlement
400
Opposition in Congress to adding slave states delayed the annexing of this territory
What is Texas
400
President Polk dispatched this Louisiana lawyer, to Mexico City in the fall of 1845. His assignment was to negotiate the following the purchase of California at any price
What is Slidell's Mission
500
This was a belief that slavery was evil. It gradually became a powerful movement against slavery during the antebellum years of America
What is Abolitionism
500
This treaty between the U.S. and Great Britain (which controlled Canada) provided for the mutual disarmament of the Great Lakes. This was later expanded into an unarmed Canada/U.S. border.
What is the Rush-Bagot Agreement
500
The Webster-Ashburton treaty settled this dispute between the lumberjacks of Maine and Canada
What is Aroostok War
500
The territory comprised what are now the states of Oregon and Washington, and portions of what became British Columbia, Canada. This land was claimed by both the U.S. and Britain and was held jointly under the Convention of 1818
What is Oregon Territory
500
This was the area of the Oregon Territory subject to dispute with Great Britain. The proponents of this slogan wanted for the US to have this territory or else go to war (it is named for the parallel)
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