Jackson Action
A political party made up of people that only shared one common goal: disdain for Andrew Jackson
Whigs
According to the Missouri Compromise in 1820, ______________ would become a free state and ______________ would become a slave state
Maine, Missouri
What is the name for the serious of routes that ran to the north where conductors would help slaves get to freedom?
Underground Railroad
This seventh president was nicknamed "Old Hickory" and is the founder of the modern day Democratic party.
What practice was banned by the Mexican government if American settlers wanted to live there?
owning slaves
National Bank
According to the Missouri Compromise, what was the boundary that separated slave states in the south from free states in the north?
36'30 line
This man escaped slavery by shipping himself to Philadelphia in a box
Henry "Box" Brown
A fairly unknown Illinois man who won the election of 1860, and was the first Republican president.
Abraham Lincoln
A Franciscan mission church that got sieged by Mexican soldiers and left no survivors. (REMEMBER IT)
Alamo
The forced journey made by Cherokee Indians to Oklahoma in 1838-1839, thanks to Jackson's policies
Trail of Tears
Henry Clay's Compromise of 1850 allowed which western state, that was growing in population, to become a part of the Union?
California
___________________ was Harriet Beecher Stowe's book
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This was the first president... of the CONFEDERATE States.
Jefferson Davis
The Mexican President at the time of Texian independence
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
DAILY DOUBLE: this was the name of the incident where South Carolina threatened to ignore a federal law... President Jackson responded by sending the army down to SC.
Nullification Crisis
According to the Compromise of 1850, where would the slave trade be abolished?
The Nation's Capital (Washington DC)
Who was the former slave in Maryland that became a successful advocate against slavery
Frederick Douglass
Became president in 1845 and used the war with Mexico as an opportunity to gain new land west of the Rocky Mountains.
James K Polk
The US said the Mexican-US border was at the ________________ river. Mexico said it was at the ___________________.
Nueces, Rio Grande
President Jackson's Vice President, who actually supported South Carolina's choice to ignore federal law.
John C Calhoun
DAILY DOUBLE: What was the law proposed by the Little Giant (Stephen A Douglas) that suggested new western territories should vote for if they want slavery, ignoring all previous boundaries made?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
A man who contributed to Bleeding Kansas' name by inciting violence there, and in Harper's Ferry in the sake of the abolitionist cause
John Brown
A serious presidential candidate in the election of 1860, this Democratic candidate ultimately lost, maybe because he came up with the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Stephen A Douglas
The name of the treaty that won the US California, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and most of the American southwest
Guadalupe-Hidalgo