In this treaty, Spain relinquished its rights to the Pacific Northwest.
What is the Adams-Onis Treaty?
100
This man was the first president of the Republic of Texas.
Who is Sam Houston?
100
This was the main factor in the transformation of the American economy in the 1840s and 50s.
What is the Railroad?
100
This group both hated slavery and abolitionists.
Who are Northerners?
100
This man took a radical position on slavery in his debates Stephen Douglas for the Senate.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
This was the major route used by migrants moving west in the 1840s and 1850s.
What is the Oregon Trail?
200
The treaty granting Texas independence was signed at San Jacinto by this Mexican President.
Who is Santa Anna?
200
This bill amendment banned slavery or servitude in territories acquired from Mexico.
What is the Wilmot-Proviso?
200
Under this, settlers in a territory would determine whether or not the territory enter statehood as a free state or a slave state.
What is popular sovereignty?
200
This man's raid of Harper's Ferry increased Southern fears of Northern hostility.
Who is John Brown?
300
Americans moved westward in the 1830s and 40s because of fertile land, economic opportunity, religious freedom, and this.
What is a sense of adventure?
300
This president went to war with Mexico in order to force the cession of New Mexico and California.
Who is James Polk?
300
This man made himself the leading candidate in the 1844 election by identifying himself with the most popular issue of the time, territorial expansion.
Who is James Polk?
300
This group opposed slavery because of its possible effects on the free labor system.
Who are the Free Soilers?
300
Bleeding Kansas proved that this concept would lead to Civil War.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
400
This group's migration west and settlement was a model of planning and efficiency.
Who are the Mormons?
400
The unwillingness of Anglo-Americans to accept Mexican rule led to this.
What is the Texas Revolution?
400
Technological progress, economic progress, an aggressive foreign policy, and a focus on American culture were characteristics of this movement.
What is Young America?
400
This abolished the slave trade in the District of Columbia.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
400
The decision in this case by SCOTUS was received favorably in the South.
What is the Dred Scott Case?
500
James Polk's aggressive foreign policy almost led to war over Oregon with this country.
What is Great Britain?
500
This Act of Mexican Congress emancipated Native Americans from church control, opened the mission's land for settlement by Mexican citizens, made the Indians landless, and created a new class of large land owners.
What is the Secularization Act?
500
DAILY DOUBLE!!! This established diplomatic relations between the United States and China.
What is the Treaty of Wanghia?
500
Stephen Douglas agreed to repeal the Missouri Compromise line in order to gain Southern support for this.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?
500
DAILY DOUBLE!!!! During the election of 1860, the Republicans were successful because of their focus on gaining votes here.