Texas Revolution
Mexico gained its independence from this country.
What is Spain?
The president of the United States from 1844 to 1848 known for supporting expansionism and Manifest Destiny.
Who is James K. Polk?
This man invented the cotton gin in 1794, which increased the efficiency of removing seeds from cotton.
Who is Eli Whitney?
The nickname for those who flooded to California during the Gold Rush.
What is 49ers?
The nickname given to Kansas because of the violent conflict arose as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What is “Bleeding Kansas”?
This is the first battle of the Texas Revolution.
What is the Battle of Gonzales?
This river was made the southern boundary between the US and Mexico after the Mexican-American War.
What is the Rio Grande?
In 1850, Congress passed this legislation that allowed runaway slaves to be hunted and returned to their owners.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
The state where the Gold Rush began in 1849, leading to a surge in population, sending it into a rapid statehood process.
What is California?
The North gets this under the Kansas-Nebraska Act (helps to move goods and people around)
What is the first transcontinental railroad?
This is the final battle of the Texas Revolution.
The belief that the United States was fated to expand across the North American continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The escaped slave that served as a conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This law, passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, required the return of escaped slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act led to the formation of this political party that opposed the spread of slavery.
What is the Republican Party?
This is the name for the Spanish mission complex founded to acculturate local Indigenous people to Christianity and Spanish life.
What is the Alamo?
The Oregon Treaty of 1846 split the Oregon Territory at this parallel.
What is the 49th parallel?
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel that depicted the harsh realities of slavery.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
The idea that residents could decide whether to or to not permit slavery in their state is called what (specifically in the Utah and New Mexico territories in this compromise)
What is popular sovereignty?
The Missouri slave who sued his deceased owner’s wife, Irene Sandford, for his freedom since he had been taken to live in free territory.
Who is Dred Scott?
This man led the Mexican Army throughout the Texas Revolution.
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War in 1848, establishing the Rio Grande as the southern border of Texas and ceding California and New Mexico to the US.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
The escaped slave and prominent abolitionist who published The North Star and fought for women’s rights and other oppressed groups.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This politician is known as the “Great Compromiser” who helped craft the Compromise of 1850. (also crafted Missouri Compromise, American System, etc)
Who is Henry Clay?
Name the two points Supreme Court Justice Roger Taney declared in the Dred Scott vs Sandford court case.
What is (1) slaves are not citizens so they had no right to sue in federal court and (2) slaves are property, owners can take them anywhere?