This region was jointly owned by both Great Britain and the U.S., and was the sight of a great land rush in the 1840's?
What is Oregon
100
Apache Indians first acquired seashores from this source?
What is Spanish settlers in New Mexico
100
President Polk ordered Zachary Taylor and 2,000 men to the Texas-Mexican border for this purpose?
What is to instigate a fight with Mexico and make it look like they started the conflict
100
The treaty that officially ended the Mexican-American War?
What is Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
100
This compromise admitted California as a free state, a new fugitive slave act, abolished the slave trade in DC, and invoked popular sovereignty in newly acquired territories?
What is Compromise of 1850
200
Setting out from this state, it took six months for settlers to reach Oregon?
What is Missouri
200
This animal became crucial to the survival of many plains Indians tribes?
What is Buffalo
200
American settlers in the Sacramento valley staged a revolt and proclaimed the independence of this republic? (Not looking for California as answer)
What is "Bear Flag" Republic
200
This was the first antislavery proposal to attract broad support, and called for the extension of the Wilmot Proviso? This movement would create a new political party?
What is Free-soil movement
200
This aspect of the new fugitive slave act most infuriated Northerners?
What is no right to a trial
300
Elite Mexican landowners and ranchers who were Catholics living in California?
What is Californios
300
54 40 or fight! was the call in the 1844 election and called for this action?
What is acquiring Oregon by any means necessary
300
Despite American victories, this Mexican president insisted on continuing the war, which would cost him his job as president?
What is Santa Anna
300
This slave-owning war hero won the election of 1848, and firmly defended slavery in the South, but not in the territories?
What is Zachary Taylor
300
this act was a compromise initiated by Stephen A. Douglas in the hopes of creating a railroad from Chicago to California, and it formed two new territories where popular sovereignty would decide the issue of slavery?
What is Kansas-Nebraska Act
400
Oregon settlers usually ended their 2,000 mile journey in this valley?
What is Willamette Valley
400
Who was "Young Hickory" who won the 1844 election on the strength of his expansionist pursuits in acquiring Oregon and Texas?
What is James K. Polk
400
This political group accused Polk of waging a war of conquest to add new slave states and give slave-owning Democrats control of the federal government?
What is conscience Whigs
400
This was the man who first found gold in California?
What is John A. Sutter
400
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was a political disaster and served to finish off this political party?
What is Whigs
500
Manifest Destiny was first coined in 1845 by this man, editor of the Democratic Review?
What is John L. O' Sullivan
500
This war occurred between 1846-1848?
What is Mexican-American War
500
the 1846 proposal that slavery be prohibited in the newly-acquired territories?
What is Wilmot Proviso
500
Gold was discovered in California in this year?
What is 1848
500
Popular sovereignty and the rushing of Missouri "Border Ruffians" into Kansas to make it a slave state led to a civil war in Kansas popularly known by what moniker?