Peeps
Escaped former slave who became “conductor” of the Underground Railroad & led hundreds of enslaved people to freedom
Harriet Tubman
Gave residents of a territory seeking statehood the power to decide if it would be a free state or a slave state.
popular sovereignty
Beginning in 1848 a huge number of people surged into a territory in search of gold
California Gold Rush
He was the Mexican president captured at the Battle of San Jacinto
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
The ideology that America was destined-by God and history- to expand its boundaries west.
Manifest Destiny
The _____ River became the official border between the US & Mexico after the Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo.
Rio Grande
He was the first president of Republic of Texas.
Sam Houston
Term for a period of statewide armed warfare by political groups that symbolized sectional controversy
Bleeding Kansas
In 1831, this person organized and led the only sustained slave rebellion in the US
Nat Turner
He was the first president to really flex presidential power; he used it to begin the spoils system & fight nullification.
Andrew Jackson
Treaty where Mexico ceded CA & NM to the US, settled the border at the Rio Grande and US pays $15 million
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
This manmade water route between New York City and Buffalo, New York was completed in 1825
Erie Canal
He was a South Carolina senator who demanded that the North protect slavery & encouraged secession if it did not.
John C. Calhoun
Derisive nickname for the Tariff of 1828, which raised rates substantially & was perceived in the South as government overreach
Tariff of Abominations
This town contained an arsenal targeted by John Brown, who hoped to raid it and start a revolt
Harpers Ferry
Who won the Election of 1860?
Abraham Lincoln
This 1819 treaty between the US & Spain ceded Florida to the US & defined the boundary between the US & Spanish Mexico
Adams–Onís Treaty
About how many Indians lost their lives marching to Indian Territory after Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act?
15,000
This Kentucky senator was known as the “Great Compromiser” for his efforts to avert sectional conflict.
Henry Clay
What political issue prevented Texas from being allowed to immediately apply for statehood?
the balance of power between free & slave states
A mission in San Antonio where an American garrison was destroyed
The Alamo
He won the election of 1844 on a platform of expansion, especially advocating the annexation of TX, CA, & OR
James K. Polk
This declared that slaves are private property and free blacks were not citizens
Dred Scott Decision
or
Dred Scott v. Sandford
The invention of the ___ allowed settlers in the Midwest to harvest more grain with far less labor
mechanical reaper
He was a religious leader who led Mormons west to escape persecution.
Brigham Young
Name any two of the groups or sub-parties who formed the new Republican political party
Free-Soil Party
Whigs
anti-slavery Democrats
Know-Nothings/American Party
This Texan victory that marked the end of the war for the independence of Texas.
Battle of San Jacinto
He was the 6th President of the U.S.; his election was decided by the House of Representatives due to the lack of an electoral majority
John Quincy Adams
This saw admission of CA as a free state, abolition of the slave trade in DC and an effective fugitive slave law
Compromise of 1850
The ____ Constitution legalized slavery in the Kansas territory.
Lecompton