Go West, Young Man!
The idea that not only was the US divinely destined to conquer the West/the continent, but also culturally superior to the Non-White inhabitants of the American West is called
Manifest Destiny
The Compromise of 1850 effectively nullified this former Compromise made in 1823
Missouri Compromise
This was the main platform of the Republicans in 1860
Limit the expansion of slavery, but allow slavery to exist where it already did
Frederick Douglass's "What is the 4th of July to a Slave" critiqued this practice despite the US being a land of supposed liberty and freedom
Slavery
The election of this President was the final straw before Southern States began seceding, ironically he never said he would take away the South's slaves until the Civil War
Lincoln
Manifest Destiny partially fueled the desire to go to this war during the Presidency of James K. Polk in 1846-1848 until the occupation of Mexico City and signing of the Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo
Mexican-American War
The Compromise of 1850 automatically established this Western State as a free state, and left the other territories to decide for themselves whether they would be "free or slave"
California
This ideology and political movement wanted to restrict immigration to America because they felt immigrants would change American culture and take jobs from "native" Americans in Northern cities
Nativism
True or false: the South overwhelmingly supported slavery but most Southerners did not own slaves
The South was dominated by this political party before Reconstruction and after
Democrat
Not only did the US get the rest of Texas, but also gained the American Southwest including this Pacific bordering state as a result of the Mexican-American War
California
Included in the Compromise of 1850 is the idea that settlers in an American territory could vote and decide for themselves whether they would be a free or slave state is called?
Popular Sovereignty
This ironically named political party wished to ban or limit immigration to the US because they felt it would "ruin" White-American, Protestant culture
Native-American Party aka Know-Nothing Party
Most Southerners felt states had the right to determine if slavery should be legal or not without having a national (federal) law deciding on the matter for them. This ideology is most similar to what previously mentioned political party following the American Revolution
Anti-Federalists
The original goal of the Civil War from the Union's perspective was:
Preserve the union
The question of this peculiar institution in the West helped further worsen sectional tension following the Mexican-American War
Slavery
The Free-Soil Party of the early 1850s advocated for making the Western States "free" states in regards to limiting the expansion of slavery. This idea would influence this party whose first President was elected in 1860
Republican
This group of Christian immigrants came from countries like Ireland and were especially discriminated against by Know-Nothings
Roman Catholics
Wage Labor
The Emancipation Proclamation officially freed slaves in rebel held areas. The Proclamation was made in this year
1863
The Oregon Territory which gave the US Oregon and Washington was ceded in 1846 from this country to the US. (Hint: we've talked a lot about this country before)
Great Britain
In addition to California a free state and enacting Popular Sovereignty in the West, the Compromise of 1850 also established strict fugitive slave laws. What is the "fugitive slave law"
Escaped enslaved people were forced to return to enslavement even if they escaped to a free state. Those who helped fugitive slaves would also be arrested and imprisoned
Political Revolutions and famine in these two countries led to more immigrants coming to Northern cities who sought political stability, food, and jobs
Germany and Ireland
Aside from slavery, this previously discussed system instilled the creation of factories and internal improvements through the creation of tariffs on Manufactured goods. This system made by Henry Clay was hated in the South but loved in the North
American System
The border states that Lincoln was afraid of seceding which had allowed slavery were:
Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware, and Maryland