Expansive
The name of the event that caused an influx of fortune seekers to a certain state for a rare earth mineral
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What is the California Gold rush
Group that advocates for reduced taxes to advance economic freedom. Oppose extensive government regulation.
Person who waged a political struggle and civil war that helped eventually end slavery and created the possibility of civil and social freedom for African-Americans.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Treaty that maintains the balance of free and slave states in the US.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The incident where US Senate chamber Brooks, used a walking cane to attack an abolitionist senator.
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What is the caning of Senator Sumner?
The idea that white Americans had every right to settle the entire continent of North America.
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What is Manifest Destiny?
Group that favors a mixed economy with a progressive tax system. More government regulation.
Who are the democrats?
Chief justice of the Supreme Court of the US that remembered due to his decision in the Dred Scott Case.
Who was Roger B. Taney?
Treaty that ended the war between the US and Mexico, in terms that Mexico ceded a large part of its territory to the US.
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What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Period of repeated outbreaks of violent warfare between slavery and anti-slavery forces in a new territory.
What is bleeding Kansas?
It provided funds to Kansas-bound settlers to help lift off some travel expenses.
What is the New England Emigrant Aid Company?
Group that supported the economic program known as the American system that contained: the protective tariff, infrastructure subsidies, and support for the national bank.
Who are the Whigs?
Abolitionist who seized the largest Federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, where US citzens were forced to reconsider the injustices of slavery.
Who was John Brown?
Pro-slavery document that allowed slavery in the state of Kansas.
What is the Lecompton Constitution?
Assault by armed abolitionists on the federal arsenals located in Virginia.
What is the Harpers Ferry?
It assigned the US almost 30 thousand square miles from Southern Arizona to Southern New Mexico for $10 million.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
Group that recognized on other political principles other than, the constitution of the country, the union of the laws, and the enforcement of the laws
Who are the Constitutional Union Party?
Abolitionist who rose to fame for the publication of the book Uncle Tom's Cabin because the book highlighted the evils of slavery.
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Ideal that states could determine whether or allow or not allow slavery based on Popular Sovereignty.
What is the Freeport Question/Doctrine?
Act that required slaves to be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state.
What was the Fugitive Slave law?
A population of people that suffered greatly due to the ideology of Manifest Destiny.
Who are the Indigenous people?
Group that was largely focused on stopping the expansion of slavery into the western territories of the US.
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Who are the Free soil party?
Advocate for slaves' rights, particularly with slavery, and minimized the role of the federal government after the civil war.
Who was James Buchanan?
There were 5 compromises in the Compromise of 1850
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What was (1) California was admitted as a free state (2) the remainder of the Mexican cession was divided into two territories without slavery (3) we only would pay $10 million for Texas to part of New Mexico (4) New fugitive Slave law (5) Buying/selling slaves was abolished in DC?
What was the most violent thing about slavery?
ALL OF IT!