Westward Expansion, Treaties, & Migration
What 1819 treaty between the U.S. and Spain ceded Florida to the United States and relinquished Spanish claims in the Oregon Territory?
What is the Adams-Onís Treaty (1819)?
How did the Cherokee Nation attempt to adapt to white American culture, and what notable achievement did Sequoyah contribute?
What is they adopted white agricultural methods, government structures, and written language. Sequoyah developed a written Cherokee syllabary to publish their own newspaper (Cherokee Phoenix)?
What were the three main parts of Henry Clay’s Missouri Compromise of 1820?
What is Missouri admitted as a slave state, Maine admitted as a free state, and slavery prohibited north of the 36°30' N line in the Louisiana Territory?
What were the immediate outcomes and long-term political effects of Nat Turner’s Rebellion in 1831?
What was over 160 total deaths occurred, Nat Turner and others were executed, and Southern states instituted much harsher Slave Codes restricting slave movement and education?
What major battle took place at a San Antonio mission fort in 1836 during the Texas Revolution?
What is the Battle of the Alamo?
What phrase expressed the belief that the United States was divinely ordained to expand across the North American continent to the Pacific Ocean?
What is Manifest Destiny?
What event in Georgia accelerated government efforts to remove the Cherokee from their ancestral lands?
What is the discovery of gold on Cherokee land?
List the major provisions of the Compromise of 1850 regarding California, Washington D.C., and runaway slaves.
What is California entered as a free state, slave trade was banned in Washington D.C., popular sovereignty was granted in Mexican Cession lands, and a stricter Fugitive Slave Law was passed?
How did Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin impact reactions to slavery in both the North and the South?
What is it framed slavery as a moral battle, outraging Northerners over its cruelty and angering Southerners who claimed the depiction was unfair and exaggerated?
Why did the United States delay annexing Texas after it won independence from Mexico in 1836?
What was Northern opposition to adding another slave state and fears of escalating conflict/war with Mexico?
What was the slogan "54-40 or Fight!" referring to during the 1844 presidential election? How was the dispute resolved?
It referred to the northern border line of latitude claimed by Americans in the Oregon Territory dispute with Great Britain. The dispute was settled by accepting the 49th parallel boundary in 1846.
What was the Supreme Court's ruling in Worcester v. Georgia, and how did President Andrew Jackson respond?
What is Chief Justice John Marshall ruled that Georgia laws had no force over the Cherokee Nation and that they could not be forcibly removed. Jackson refused to enforce the ruling?
How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 change the rule set by the Missouri Compromise, and what was the result in Kansas?
What is it replaced the Missouri Compromise boundary line with popular sovereignty. This led to violent clashes known as "Bleeding Kansas?"
What was the goal of John Brown’s 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia, and how did both regions view his actions?
What is Brown tried to seize the federal arsenal to arm a slave revolt. Northerners saw him as a martyr; Southerners saw him as evidence of Northern plots against slavery?
Describe the border dispute between Texas and Mexico that led President Polk to send troops under Zachary Taylor.
What was Texas claimed the Rio Grande as its southern boundary, while Mexico claimed the Nueces River?
Who founded the Mormon religion, and why did Brigham Young lead the group to present-day Utah?
Joseph Smith founded the religion. Brigham Young led them west to Utah to escape intense religious persecution.
What was the Indian Removal Act of 1830, and what was the forced march of the Cherokee known as?
What is an act authorizing the forced relocation of southeastern tribes to modern-day Oklahoma; the forced march was called the Trail of Tears?
What were the core political goals of the Free Soil Party?
What is to stop the expansion of slavery into new U.S. territories?
Identify the anti-slavery contribution of each abolitionist leader:
William Lloyd Garrison:
Harriet Tubman:
Garrison: Founded The Liberator newspaper and co-founded the American Anti-Slavery Society.
Tubman: Escaped slave and famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
What treaty ended the Mexican-American War in 1848, and what land was ceded to the U.S.?
What is The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo (1848); Mexico ceded California and New Mexico/Southwestern territories?
Why did the United States complete the Gadsden Purchase in 1854?
What is to acquire land in present-day southern Arizona and New Mexico for constructing a transcontinental railroad?
Approximately what fraction of the Cherokee population died along the Trail of Tears?
What is over one-quarter (25%) of the Cherokee population?
What were the beliefs and goals of the Know-Nothing Party regarding mid-19th-century immigration?
What is they were nativists who opposed Catholic and foreign-born immigration to protect native-born American interests?
Identify the anti-slavery contribution of each abolitionist leader:
David Walker:
Frederick Douglass:
Walker: Free Black man who wrote the Appeal, urging enslaved people to fight for freedom.
Douglass: Escaped slave, orator, and publisher of the North Star newspaper.
How did the 1848 California Gold Rush alter California's path to statehood?
What was the sudden influx of thousands of prospectors ("49ers") allowed California to bypass the typical territorial stage and apply directly for statehood as a free state?