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Western Expansion
Important Figures
Grab Bag
Compromise of 1850
Lincoln-Douglass Debates
100
This term was used to justify US expansion from coast to coast
What is manifest destiny?
100
Abraham Lincoln famously debated against this man in 1858
Who is Stephen Douglass?
100
States were granted this two-word term to decide if they would allow slavery in their territory.
What is popular sovereignty?
100
Which senator proposed this Compromise?
Who is Henry Clay?
100
Name two people involved in this debate.
Who are Abraham Lincoln and/or Stephen Douglass?
200
Debate over this in the new Western territories would lead to increased sectional tension and a number of compromises between the North and the South
What is slavery?
200
Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky also was known by this nickname
What is "The Great Compromiser?"
200
Which future assassin watched the execution of John Brown in 1859?
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
200
This act followed the Compromise of 1850 and was viewed as undoing the work of the compromises before it.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
200
Douglass challenged this Supreme Court decision in his debates with Abraham Lincoln.
What is Dred Scott?
300
This act would have blocked slavery in all territory acquired from Mexico after the Mexican-American War.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
300
This abolitionist ran an anti-slavery newspaper called The Liberator
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
300
This term was used by the North to describe the existence of slavery.
What is the peculiar institution?
300
Northern states feared the addition of more slave states because their added population granted them this two-word term within Congress.
What is "slave power?"
300
This Doctrine stated that the decisions of a territory could overrule Supreme Court decisions
What is the Freeport Doctrine?
400
Kansas was given this nickname after John Brown's Pottawatomie massacre.
What is "bleeding Kansas?"
400
The name of the newspaper owned by William Lloyd Garrison
What is The Liberator?
400
Lincoln received this number of electoral votes in the election of 1860
What is 180?
400
This line was established as the boundary between future slave and free states in the US.
What is the 36°30′ line?
400
Describe Abraham Lincoln's stance on slavery in the new territories.
Black Americans entitled to rights outlined by Declaration of Independence Black Americans to be equal as men but not as citizens Didn’t want to disrupt states where slavery already existed
500
This early British Act set the westernmost boundary of the US colonies at the Appalachian mountains.
What is the Proclamation Act of 1763?
500
John Brown and his raiders held their ground at Harper's Ferry for this amount of time
What is 2 days?
500
California became a state in this year
What is 1850?
500
Name three provisions of this Compromise
(Potential answers) California entered as a free state, the slave trade ended in Washington, D.C., the Fugitive Slave Law was amended to force Northerners to participate in slave catching, and/or popular sovereignty was granted to Utah and New Mexico
500
Describe Douglass' stance on slavery in the new territories
popular sovereignty Black Americans inferior to white Americans Citizens determined slavery within their own territories → challenged Dred Scott decision Slave owners may move slaves into western territory → negates popular sovereignty