Expansion
The belief by many that the US had a divine mission to control land to the Pacific
What is manifest destiny?
The most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad?
Who is Harriet Tubman?
What immigrant groups faced discrimination in this period?
Who are the Chinese, the Irish, and the Germans?
First conflict of the Civil War
What is Fort Sumter?
Incorporating a state, country or territory into another
What is annexation?
Occurred in California in 1949
What is the gold rush?
His case went to the Supreme Court after he sued for his freedom
Who is Dred Scott?
Name given to the violence following the Kansas-Nebraska Act
What is Bleeding Kansas?
The first state to secede from the Union
What is South Carolina?
Anti-immigration party
What are the Know-Nothings?
Mission where Santa Anna’s army killed all US defenders
What is the Alamo?
Led the raid of Harper’s Ferry
Who is John Brown?
Event in which there was violence in the Senate over slavery
What is the caning of Senator Sumner?
Important Union victory and bloodiest battle
What is Gettysburg?
Principle that the government’s power comes from the people, includes voting
What is popular sovereignty?
The land that the US got from Mexico, including California and New Mexico
What is the Mexican cession?
Debated against Abraham Lincoln over slavery and proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Who is Stephen Douglas?
What political party wanted to exclude African Americans from the West?
The Free-Soil party
Union travel through Georgia and South Carolina burning farms, houses, etc.
What is Sherman’s March?
Provision in the Compromise of 1850, wherein citizens in free states were mandated to assist in the capture and return of escaped slaves
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
What treaty ended the Mexican-American War?
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
Wrote the influential novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe
Policy proposed, but not passed, forbidding slavery in the territories acquired from Mexico
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
War policy which allowed for southern slaves to be taken by the Union as “contraband” because they were being used in the war against the Union
What are the Confiscation Acts?
Name for fur traders living in the West
What are mountain men?