Manifest Destiny
This territory was sold to the U.S. in 1803 by France, doubling the size of the U.S.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
In 1820, this compromise added two states: one free and one that permitted slavery in the Louisiana Territory.
What is The Missouri Compromise?
This Supreme Court Decision from 1857 found that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. Chief Justice Roger Taney and six other Justices ruled that Missouri Compromise was illegal because Congress had no power to prohibit slavery in the territories.
What is the Dredd Scott Decision?
This was a 1,911-mile continuous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Council Bluffs, Iowa with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
America annexed this state before it was given permission from Mexico, and effectively caused the Mexican-American War.
What is Texas?
This 1850 Act allowed White Americans to send back escaped slaves back to slaveowners whether or not they were in a Free State
What is the The Fugitive Slave Act?
This conflict came as a result of the United States attempting to add Texas to its Union in 1845.
What is the Mexican-American war?
This state was given popular sovereignty to determine whether or not it wanted to adopt slavery - as a result, saw the migration of voters from outside the state to swing the vote both towards and away from slavery.
What is Kansas?
This was an unsuccessful 1846 proposal in the United States Congress to ban slavery in territories acquired from Mexico in the Mexican–American War.
This was the direct influence of the invention of the Cotton Gin by Eli Whitney in 1794: Increased demand for _____ and _____?
What is cotton and slave labor?
Acquired in 1849, this state was a part of the United State's Gold Rush and was appointed as Free.
What is California?
This 1854 Act effectively overturned the Missouri Compromise by changing Missouri from a slave state to a state that had to decide legality by popular sovereignty.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The picture American Progress by John Gast, this Italian word is used to describe the slow changing of the dark in the West to the light of the East.
What is chiaroscuro?
These two western states were both added to the U.S. and allowed to determine their own legality of slavery by popular sovereignty in 1850.
What are Utah and New Mexico?
The Compromise of 1850 allowed for slavery this U.S. territory
What is Washington D.C.?