Regions of the U.S.
Which region was the most heavily populated and relied on manufacturing and industry?
The North
Why was it possible for the North to end slavery quickly?
Slavery was not widespread in the north and slavery was not important to its economy.
What Act allowed the government to pay American Indians to move from their homelands to the unsettled land west of the Mississippi?
Indian Removal Act
What country did Mexico gain its independence from?
Spain
What did the North not want to expand past the Mississippi River?
slavery
What crop gave plantation owners the largest profit in South?
Cotton
What state separates from Massachusetts and becomes a free state when Missouri joins becomes a slave state?
Maine
The Cherokee took their fight against the Indian Removal Act to what group?
The Supreme Court
What caused Texas to want to rebel against Mexico and become independent?
Mexico outlawed slavery
The Wilmot Proviso would have banned slavery in all lands taken from what country?
Mexico
What region made money selling natural resources like coal, iron and trees, while also finding gold.
The West
What Act required states to return escaped slaves and punished those who helped them escape?
Fugitive Slave Act
How did the Seminoles fight against the Indian Removal Act?
Using Force or war
Who was Mexican president that declared himself president for life after the Mexican-American War?
Santa Anna
The Indian Territory is greatly reduced by 1858 and American Indians were forced into smaller areas called what?
What social class in the south had no rights and were considered property?
Enslaved African Americans
Washington D.C.
What religion were most Protestants wanting to convert American Indians to?
Christianity
More troops
Who was U.S. president during the Mexican American war and used Manifest Destiny to create his goals in office?
James K. Polk
Why did many people start moving into cities?
To get jobs in factories
What group helped to turn the North against slavery and were not welcome in the South?
Abolitionists
What was the event where U.S. troops attacked the peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians in Colorado, killing more than 150 men, women, and children?
Sand Creek Massacre
What treaty ended the Mexican-American war, gave the U.S. much of the land in the Southwest, and was supposed to protect the rights of the new Mexican Americans?
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
What possession of President Santa Anna is currently in display at a museum in Illinois?