Mexican American War
What was President Polk's goal?
To expand the US as far as he could
Southerners feared what about slaves the most after John Brown's raid..
uprising
Kitchen Cabinet
() was an enslaved man whose Missouri slaveholder had taken him to live in free territory before returning to Missouri.
Dred Scott
President Lincoln's Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction called for a general amnesty or pardon, to all Southerners who took an oath of (blank) to the United States and accepted the Union's proclamations concerning slavery.
loyalty
What happened when the US annexed Texas and made it the 28th state?
Mexico cut off all diplomatic ties with US
the Democratic Party was torn apart by what in 1859
a debate
President Jackson defended the ________
Union
The Supreme Court ruled for or against Dred Scott ?
against
After ten percent of the state's voters in the 1860 presidential election had taken the oath, the state could organize a new state (blank).
government
He was sent to Mexico by Polk to negotiate the buying of New Mexico and California for $30 million. However, Mexican officials refused to meet with him.
Who is John Slidell
by supporting slave holders rights in territories , southern democrats upheld this decision ...
Dred Scott
President Jackson wanted to move natives where???
The Great Plains ....
The legislature of Kansas was pro slavery or anti
pro slavery
The Radical Republicans in Congress, led by Representative Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania and Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, did not want to reconcile with the (blank).
South
What was the border dispute about Texas?
Mexico wanted the border to be the Nueces river, but the US wanted it to be the Rio Grande
The constitutional union party was formed by what people/what did they want to do???
to uphold the Constitution and the Union.
What people were terrorized on the Trail of Tears?
The Cherokee
Kansas became a state in the year
1861
Moderate Republicans thought Lincoln's plan was too lenient on the South and the (blank) plan was too harsh.
Radical Republicans
The Freeport Doctrine pleased Illinois voters but angered who?
Southern voters.
who won the election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln
Name the 4 themes of the Jacksonian Presidency
1. Bank War
2. Scandal
3. Indian Removal
4. Secession
what did Douglas favor in the debates?
popular sovereignty.
Thousands of freed African Americans, known as freedmen, had followed General Sherman and his troops as they marched through (blank).
Georgia and South Carolina.