Party Politics
This party formed in 1854 in opposition to slavery
What is the Republican Party?
This trail stretched from Independence, Missouri to the Willamette Valley
What is the Oregon Trail?
Exclamation point victory over the British at this battle in January, 1815
What is the Battle of New Orleans?
Led the first American settlers into Texas and the capitol bears his name
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
Harriet Tubman gained fame as a conductor on this
What is the Underground Railroad?
Eli Whitney's invention that unintentionally contributed to the growth of slavery
What is the cotton gin?
This tribe chose to physically fight against the U.S. Army in order to remain on their native lands in Florida
Who were the Seminole?
People angry over the results of the 1824 election formed this political party
What is the Democratic Party?
Stephen Long described much of the West as this
What is the Great American Desert?
The U.S. attempted invasion of this region/country failed at the start of the War of 1812
Where is Canada?
Victorious general and eventual president of the Lone Star Republic, the largest city in Texas today bears his name
Who is Sam Houston?
This runaway slave became an abolitionist leader, public speaker, author, and publisher of "The North Star"
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Rules that prohibited marriage, teaching slaves to read and write, and created many other guidelines were known as this
What are slave codes?
This individual failed multiple times to achieve his dream of being elected the POTUS, but was perhaps the most significant Speaker of the House in U.S. History
Who is Henry Clay?
The time after the War of 1812 with only one political party was known as this era
What is the Era of Good Feelings?
This president reflected and embodied the ideal of Manifest Destiny
Who is President James K. Polk?
The Shawnee Indian who tried to rally tribes to unify against U.S. expansion
Who is Tecumseh?
The president and general of Mexico who fancied himself the Napoleon of the West
Who was (Antonio López de) Santa Anna?
This individual contributed to the mayhem in "Bleeding Kansas" by killing five people in Pottawatomie , Kansas in retaliation for the burning of Lawrence
Who is John Brown?
South Carolina freedman Denmark Vesey planned a failed mass slave escape in 1822 hoping to make it to freedom on this Caribbean island
Where is Haiti?
This legislation resulted in drawing a line at 36°30' with north of that line to be free and south to allow slavery
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Angry over the perception that Andrew Jackson was taking too much power similar to a king, this political party was born
Who were the Whigs?
The U.S. gained California and much of the Southwest as a result of this treaty ending the war with Mexico
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
This treaty ended the war officially on Christmas Eve, 1814
What is the Treaty of Ghent?
Americans were invited to settle in order to create a buffer from attacks by this Indian tribe
Who were the Comanche?
This religious group/church was the backbone of the Abolitionist Movement
Who were the Quakers (Society of Friends)?
This Virginia slave led a violent rebellion in 1831 that ultimately failed
Who is Nat Turner?
The "favorite son" of South Carolina who wrote the Doctrine of Nullification anonymously while serving as Andrew Jackson's VP
Who is John C. Calhoun?
Western congressmen who wanted to fight Great Britain were known as this
Who were the War Hawks?
The final compromised boundary line between the U.S. and Great Britain in the Pacific Northwest
What is the 49th Parallel?
Native Americans became angry when the U.S. took the southern part of Indiana in this treaty
What is the Treaty of Vincennes?
Mexico claimed this river just south of Corpus Christi to be the boundary line with Mexico rather than the Rio Grande
What is the Nueces River?
This broad religious revival was responsible for giving birth to the impulses of the abolitionist movement
What is the 2nd Great Awakening?
This abolitionist believed that the only way to fix the sin of slavery was to overthrow the Constitution and start over, granting freed slaves immediate equality under the law
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
The Cherokee won this Supreme Court case against Georgia but were still ultimately forced to relocate to Oklahoma in the 1830s
What is Worcester v Georgia?