People
Events
Creators
Vocabulary
Agreements.
100
Won the election of 1814.
Who is James K Polk?
100
An event when people poured into Kansas to decide on issues of slavery.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
100
Established the steel plow.
Who is John Deere?
100
People in their territory choose their own laws.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
100
What the south got.
What is the Fugitive-Slave Act?
200
Who suggested the everywhere in the US other than where slavery already was, would be free.
Who is Wilmont Proviso?
200
Treaty that ended the Mexican-American war?
What was the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
200
Created the mechanical reaper.
Who is Cyrus McCormick?
200
To come apart of the United States.
What is Annexation?
200
California was admitted to the Union as the 16th free state. In exchange, the south was given an improved Fugitive Slave act. Texas lost its boundary claims in New Mexico, but the Congress compensates Texas with $10 million
What is the Compromise of 1850?
300
Crazy preacher who sacrificed his son over the issue of slavery.
Who is John Brown
300
War that started because Texas wanted to pull from Mexico.
What was the Texas War of Independence?
300
Created the path of the underground railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
300
Americans belief that God gave them the right to settle West.
What is Manifest Destiny?
300
A slogan started by James Polk. They wanted Oregon and Washington
What is "fifty-four forty or fight"
400
Hero of Texas war of Independence.
Who is Stephen Austin?
400
Important battle in the Texas war. That was a church before.
What was the Alamo?
400
patented an Iron bladed plow in 1819
Who is Jethro Wood?
400
Settlers who took land that the federal government owned.
What are Squatters?
400
Established a border between British Canada and the US. Both nations agreed to stop slave trading.
What is the Webster-Ashburton Treaty?
500
Wrote the story of the Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who was Harriet Beecher?
500
When America acquired California in the New Mexico territory and set the boundaries for Texas.
What was the Mexican American War?
500
Made a living by trapping beaver and selling the furs to traders in the West.
Who is Kit Carson?
500
Men who lived in the mountains that helped the settlers on trails.
What are Mountain Men?
500
People could decide for themselves if slavery will be in these two territories. Kansas then becomes one of the first battlegrounds over slavery.
What is the Kansas-Nebraka Act?
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