Manifest Destiny
What was the goal of Manifest Destiny?
To spread America to the West Coast/Pacific Ocean
The movement that wanted to end or limit the consumption of alcohol.
Temperance
This required that Northern states return runaway slaves to the South.
Fugitive Slave Act
He was a slave who instigated a slave rebellion in Virginia that resulted in harsher slave laws.
Nat Turner
Abraham Lincoln’s act to free slaves in all “rebellious” states.
The Emancipation Proclamation
How much was the Louisiana territory purchased for and in which year?
$15 million in 1803
The 3 unalienable rights listed in the Declaration (inspired by John Locke)
Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness
An 1854 act that overturned the 36° 30’ line
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Violence erupted between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces in this territory.
Kansas
Andrew Jackson “killed” this act of Congress with a veto.
The Second Bank of the United States
This state was Mexican territory until they fought a war for independence in the 1830s.
Texas
Name TWO new innovations of the Market Revolution (early 1800s)
Railroad, steamboat ferry, Erie Canal, telegraph, cotton gin, interchangeable parts
This established the law that slavery COULD NOT exist above the 36° 30’ line
Missouri Compromise of 1820
This man was beat by a cane after delivering a speech against the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Charles Sumner
This political party was created as an abolitionist party
Republicans
Worcester v Georgia
This political party believed in a 21 year citizenship requirement & was anti-immigrant
Know-Nothings
California became a free state with this compromise
Compromise of 1850
John Brown attempted to stage a slave rebellion in this Virginia town.
Harper's Ferry
The two compromises written by Henry Clay.
Missouri Compromise of 1820 & Compromise of 1850
Name the four states that America won from the Mexican-American War (known as the Mexican Cession).
California, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada
This political party was against the expansion of slavery for ECONOMIC, not moral, reasons
Free Soilers
The name of Henry Clay’s economic plan to ease tensions between North and South
The American System
The first battle of the Civil War.
Fort Sumter
Abraham Lincoln expanded his presidential power by suspending this Constitutional protection.
The writ of Habeas Corpus