The Mexican-American War
He was President during the Mexican-American War
James Knox Polk
Colony founded by Puritans
Massachusetts (Bay)
Andrew Jackson is on the ___________ dollar bill
The $20 bill
South Carolina's largest cash crop in Antebellum America
Cotton
State admitted as "free state" as part of the Compromise of 1850
California
Land ceded to the U.S. after the war by Mexico was known as the
Mexican Cession
Colony named after King James
Jamestown (VA)
Andrew Jackson's Nickname
Old Hickory
South Carolina senator who argued that slavery was a "positive good"
John C. Calhoun
"Trade" that ended as part of the Compromise of 1850
The DC slave trade
Proposal that land acquired through the Mexican-American America be "free" soil
Wilmot Proviso
Colony for religious dissenters founded by Roger Williams
Rhode Island
Andrew Jackson was from this state
Tennessee
Name of the "crisis" in which SC threatened to "nullify" the "Tariff of Abominations"
The Nullification Crisis
"Great Compromiser" from KY who backed the Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay
Year that the Mexican-American war ended
1848
Maryland
Name of the battle during the War of 1812 that solidified Jackson's status as a military hero
The Battle of New Orleans
Fort in Charleston Harbor, SC where the first shots were fired in the Civil War
Fort Sumter
Texas
State that was the subject of a border dispute that (in part) caused the Mexican-American War
Texas
Southern Colony founded by James Oglethorpe
Georgia
He defeated Jackson for the Presidency in 1824
John Quincy Adams
Year that South Carolina seceded from the Union
1860
Part of the Compromise of 1850 most detested by Northern Abolitionists
The Fugitive Slave Act (of 1850)