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Vocab
100
o • This democrat moderate helped write the Kansas Nebraska Act and advocated popular sovereignty
Who is Stephen A. Douglas?
100
This difficult trail was the most common path taken to reach the north west city of Oregon
What is the Oregon Trail?
100
These people went to California in 1849 in search of gold (also the name of a less than inspiring football team)
What are “Forty-niners”?
200
This supported of annexation became president through his goals of re-occupying Oregon and annexing Texas
Who is James K. Polk?
200
This landslide loss for the Americans against the Mexicans in Texas became a common battle cry, “Remember ….!”
What is the Alamo?
200
This allowed the Kansas and Nebraska territories to use popular sovereignty in determining whether they would be slave or free states
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
200
This allowed the people to decide what kind of government they wanted by voting
What is Popular Sovereignty?
300
This Whig president was elected mainly because he was a well-known war hero
Who is Zachary Taylor?
300
This extreme abolitionist wanted to use violence to end slavery
Who is John Brown?
300
This court case ruled that slaves couldn’t sue in court because they were not people, but were property instead
What is the Dred Scott decision?
300
This treaty ended the Mexican American war and gave America both California and New Mexico
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
300
This political party wanted slow freedom of slaves to be attained by creating all new states as free states
What is the Free-Soil Party?
400
This man led a massive army into Texas to defeat the Americans, but eventually was captured and gave Texas independence
Who is General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna?
400
This man established the first legal American settlement in texas
Who is Stephen F. Austin?
400
This document written by Stephen A. Douglass and Henry Clay provided that California was admitted as free state, popular sovereignty was maintained in Utah and New Mexico, slave trade was abolished in DC, and the fugitive slave laws were strengthened
What is the Compromise of 1850?
400
John brown’s raid which ended in his capture and execution for treason
What is Harpers Ferry?
400
This was the belief that it was God’s will for Americans to rule the whole continent
What is Manifest Destiny?
500
"Old Fuss and Feathers" whose conquest of Mexico City brought the U.S. victory in the Mexican War in 1848
Who is Winfield Scott?
500
This man defeated Santa Anna at the battle of San Jacinto and became the president of Texas
Who is Sam Houston?
500
This $10 million dollar purchase gained a tiny sliver of land in New Mexico and Arizona
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
500
This shut-down proposal said that slavery would be outlawed in any territory gained from Mexico
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
500
Mexican residents of Texas some of which fought with America in the revolution
What are Tejanos?