Westward Expansion
Sectional Struggle
Disunion
Westward Expansion #2
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100
The belief that the American people were destined by God to expand across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
100
This compromise stated that the people living in a new western territory or state should vote to determine if that state should be free or slave.
What is popular sovereignty?
100
This 1854 act allowed settlers to vote in order to determine if slavery would be allowed or rejected in the new Nebraska and Kansas territories, effectively repealing the Missouri Compromise.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
100
Which of these would have been MOST likely to take the Oregon Trail?
Americans trying to settle on the west coast
100
BEST describes the efforts of William Lloyd Garrison?
urged immediate emancipation of slaves in the United States.
200
The United States annexation of this territory (now state) led to diplomatic trouble and eventually war with Mexico.
What is Texas?
200
This emerging political party believed that lands gained in the Mexican War should be free of slavery.
What is the Free Soil Party?
200
This term describes the fighting that broke out between proslavery and antislavery groups in a new territory in 1855, highlighting the tumultuous divide between Northern and Southern factions.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
200
Of these land acquisitions, which one doubled the size of the United States?
Louisiana Purchase
200
Whose Presidency was MOST concerned with fulfilling the country's Manifest Destiny?
James K. Polk
300
Some citizens and lawmakers opposed war with Mexico because they believed it was an immoral effort to expand the institution of ________.
What is slavery?
300
This 1820 compromise admitted Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state in order to maintain a balance of 15 free and 15 slave states. It also stated that no new territories north of the 36'30' parallel would allow slavery.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
300
This abolitionist attempted to start a slave uprising in 1859 in Harpers Ferry. HE WAS THAT CRAZY GUY!!!
Who is John Brown?
300
The United States acquired Florida from Spain in which treaty?
Adams-Onis
300
During the Antebellum period, religion was used by many Americans to
justify the existence of slavery.
400
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War granting the United States California and New Mexico in exchange for $15 million and recognized the Rio Grande as the southern border of Texas.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
400
This rigorously enforced law's purpose was to track down runaway slaves. It caused a deeper polarization between Northern and Southern states.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
400
This 1857 Supreme Court decision stated that slaves were not U.S. citizens and a form of property, therefore had no right to sue in a federal court.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
400
What was the largest and most constant issue facing the United States during the era of "Manifest Destiny?"
whether slavery would spread across the United States
400
Angelina and Sarah Grimke were sisters from South Carolina and are MOST notable as being 19th century
abolitionists.
500
The discovery of this mineral in California in 1848 set off the first of many migrations West.
What is gold?
500
· Frederick Douglass
· William Lloyd Garrison
· Sojourner Truth
All of these were prominent names were figures in WHICH social movement
abolition
500
This political party was founded in 1854. Its platform called for the repeal of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Fugitive Slave Law. Most of its members were Northerners who wanted to limit the spread of slavery.
What is the Republican Party?
500
In the early 19th century, the area in brown (#1) was known as the
Oregon Territory.
500
Which area on the map was purchased from France in 1803?
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