Election of 1860/Secession
Republican Candiate
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Two causes of Failure of Compromise
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act and Dred Scott v. Sanford?
Definition of The Compromise of 1850
What are laws meant to reduce tension between free and slave states?
Two causes of Manifest Destiny
What are Economic opportunities and Technology/Transportation?
They were known for the Border disputes and their claims
Who is the U.S., which claimed the Rio Grande, and who is Mexico, which claimed the Nueces River?
What state and year was seceded first?
What is South Carolina, 1860?
Another name for violent conflict in Kansas
What is Bleeding Kansas?
Stated admitted as a free state
What is California?
Manifest Destiny
What is the belief that the U.S. had a God Given mission to expand across North American Continent (West)?
President of the Mexican American War
Who is James Polk?
What is Fugitive Slave Act?
What is the required return of escaped enslaved people?
One Breakdown of political system
What is Whig Party Collapse?
Slave trade was abolished in this state
What is Washington, D.C.?
This mode of transportation revolutionized travel and trade by connecting distant cities with fast, reliable rail service.
What is the railroad?
This war, fought between 1846 and 1848, ended with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
What is the Mexican-American War?
Lincoln Won with what ______ states?
What is Northern?
What is the Compromise of 1850, the Missouri Compromise, and Kansas-Nebraska Act?
These two territories were allowed to decide the issue of slavery through popular sovereignty, letting the people vote for or against it.
What is Utah and New Mexico?
Gained two new Territory
What is the Oregon Territory and Mexican Cession?
This proposed amendment sought to ban slavery in lands won from Mexico but failed to pass in Congress, intensifying sectional tensions.
What is Wilmot Proviso?
What month and year did the Civil War begin?
What is April 1861?
Party that opposes spread of Slavery
What is a Republican?
The North welcomed what state as a free state?
What is California?
The loss of these was a central cause of Native American suffering as settlers and the government expanded westward.
What is Native American land?
The U.S. became more powerful, gained access to ____ coast trade.
What is the Pacific?