The US and the World
Increased Sectionalism
Compromise/Conflict
Looking Westward
Expansion and War
Even More Sectionalism!
The Crises of the 1850s
100
a widely held belief that incorporating new territory was sanctioned by God
What is Manifest Destiny
100
Northern social group who formed the basis of its free-labor manufacturing economy
Who are immigrants
100
Conflict over slavery focused primarily on its legality in this area
What is the territories
100
Once through the South Pass of the Rocky Mountains this trail would take migrants to the Pacific Northwest.
What is the Oregon Trail?
100
Once Britain rejected an offer to establish the border between Canada and the U.S.A. at the 49th parallel, this became Polk's battle cry.
What is "54-40 or Fight"?
100
This treaty, ending the war with Mexico, meant that new territories would be added to the United States and their eventual statehood would contribute to the difficulties of the already fractured nation.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
100
In attempts to avoid the slavery question, President Pierce became involved in this movement who's goal was to spread American democracy throughout the world.
What is "Young America"?
200
White settlement in the West was greatly aided by this Civil War-era law
What is the Homestead Act
200
The fiery abolitionist who died a martyr in the North and a murderer in the South - increasing hatred
Who is John Brown
200
The idea that residents should vote to decide the question of slavery
What is popular sovereignty
200
From the South Pass of the Rocky Mountains, this trail would take you on a "golden" path.
What is the California Trail?
200
The dispute with Mexico over the U.S.A.'s southern border concerned two rivers; the U.S.A. claimed the southern border was the Rio Grande River and Mexico claimed it was this river.
What is the Nueces River?
200
This Pennsylvania member of the House of Representatives attempted to forbid slavery to exist in any newly-acquired territories from Mexico.
Who is David Wilmot?
200
This man was primarily responsible for the Gadsden Purchase which he arranged to assure that the future Transcontinental Railroad would run through the South, not the cities of the North.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
300
American empresario who brought settlers to Texas and aided in the eventual Texas revolution
Who is Stephen F. Austin
300
Name given to Southern slavery advocates whose ownership increased their social standing
What is the "slavocracy"
300
The Supreme Court opinion that excluded African-Americans from citizenship rights in the United States
What is Dred Scott
300
From Independence, Missouri, this trail would take you to places like Albuquerque in the New Mexico Territory.
What is the Santa Fe Trail?
300
In order to secure the border President Polk sent troops led by this man; Polk's eventual successor.
Who is Zachary Taylor?
300
Creation of this political party following the election of 1848 signaled that neither the Whigs nor the Democrats were able to adequately address the nation's concerns over slavery.
What is the Free Soil Party?
300
The idea of allowing voters to decide for themselves the issue of slavery that resulted in Bleeding Kansas was known as this.
What is popular sovereignty?
400
Whigs in the Senate rejected this treaty, which effectively ended the Mexican-American War and granted the US territories in California, New Mexico and Utah
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
400
This growing industry greatly influenced the economic interests of the North - as well as Northern chances in the war
What are railroads
400
The most controversial piece of Henry Clay's Compromise of 1850
What is enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act
400
This painting, that hangs to this day in the U.S. House of Representatives, celebrates pictorially this concept that it was by divine right that America expands.
What is Manifest Destiny?
400
Once this man's offer to purchase disputed territories were rejected by Mexico, Polk ordered Taylor to invade Mexico.
Who is John Slidell?
400
This event resulted in a mass migration of the population to California, speeding up its timeline for becoming a state in the U.S.A.
What is the Gold Rush?
400
Most northerners did not necessarily disagree with slavery because of what it did to blacks, but because of what it threatened to do to southern poor whites who were locked into poverty. This theory is known as this.
What is Free-Soil Ideology?
500
The actions and events associated with Manifest Destiny can be linked to this belief - a continuity from colonial times
What is racial/cultural superiority
500
The three main pieces of evidence used by Southerners to defend slavery as a positive good
What are the Bible, racial inferiority, and industrial comparisons
500
Three major events caused by the Kansas-Nebraska Act
What is Bloody Kansas, the beating of Charles Sumner, and the formation of the Republican Party
500
170 years before the Coronavirus, on the Oregon Trail, thousands died from this 1850s epidemic.
What is cholera?
500
In the event of war with Mexico, Taylor dispatched messengers to these two areas to alert Americans there that if they revolted against Mexican authority, the United States would look sympathetically upon them.
What is New Mexico and California?
500
His great 1850 proposal was that California would become a free state, territorial governments would be established in lands acquired from Mexico without restrictions on slavery, the slave trade would be abolished in the District of Columbia, and there would be a more effective Fugitive Slave Law.
Who is Henry Clay?
500
Victorious in winning the Election of 1856, this president - the only one from Pennsylvania - is considered by most historians to have been among the worst leaders in the history of the U.S.A.
Who is James Buchanan?