Early 1800s
This doctrine warned European powers not to interfere in the Americas.
The Monroe Doctrine
This was a population boom in California caused by the discovery of gold in 1848-1849.
What is the California Gold Rush?
This was a compromise that allowed California to join the United States as a free state, in exchange for a stronger Fugitive Slave Law.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This was a political party in the mid-1800s that wanted to keep slavery from expanding in new American territories.
What is the Republican Party.
This was an idea that American settlers were destined to expand from coast to coast.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This was an act of Congress that offered 160 acres of land in the Western United States to any settler who could improve it.
What is the Homestead Act?
This is a law passed in 1850 that penalized those who helped slaves escape and rewarded those who caught or captured slaves.
What was the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850?
These were 11 Southern slave-holding states who seceded from the United States prior to the Civil War.
The telegraph, steam engine, and factories were technological advancements that fueled this "Revolution".
What is the Market Revolution?
This was a railroad that stretched across the United States from Council Bluffs, Iowa to Oakland, California.
What is the Transcontinental railroad?
This was an act that allowed the citizens in the Kansas and Nebraska Territories to vote on whether they wanted slavery, creating a volatile and hostile environment leading to "Bleeding Kansas".
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
During this state convention in 1860, South Carolina voted to secede from the United States.
What was South Carolina's Secession Convention of 1860?
This canal connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, improving trade.
What is the Erie Canal?
This was a treaty signed between the Shogunate in Japan with the United States after U.S. Navy ships sailed into Tokyo Bay, resulting in two Japanese ports opening up to American trade.
What is the Treaty of Kanagawa?
This was a series of bloody and violent fights between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers in Kansas.
What was Bleeding Kansas?
This was an important election which elected Abraham Lincoln as the president, after the North outvoted the South. It resulted in the Southern states thinking slavery was under threat.
What was the Election of 1860?
This election was important due to it marking the first peaceful transition of power between political parties.
What is the Election of 1800?
This was land acquired by the United States after they defeated Mexico in the Mexican-American War - including California, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico.
What was the Mexican Cession?
This Supreme Court decision decided that slaves, no matter where they resided, had no rights.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
This was considered the first battle of the Civil War, after Confederate forces attacked a Union fort.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?