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This painting is most closely associated with what movement?
Manifest Destiny
100
Many Americans initially went to Mexico in the early 1830s for what reason?
Lots of cheap farm land
100
When was the peak period of Manifest Destiny?
Mid 1800s (1840-1855)
100
Most westward travelers achieved movement through what means?
Oregon trail; wagon trains
100
The people of South Carolina rejoiced and then seceded with this event in 1860.
The election of Abraham Lincoln
200
The map above is from which compromise?
Missouri Compromise of 1820
200
What was the MOST appealing part of the Compromise of 1850?
California is added as a free state
200
What part of the Compromise of 1850 was appealing to the Southern States?
A stricter fugitive slave act
200
The idea that the people of a territory or state can decide on the issue of slavery is known as what?
Popular Sovereignty
200
Democrat James Buchanan defeated Rep. John Fremont in the election of 1856 but the biggest outcome for the Republicans in the loss was this?
Republicans realized mathematically they could win the next election without carrying any southern states.
300
Which pieces of land were purchased?
B - Louisiana Purchase
J - Gadsden Purchase
300
"54°40' or Fight" was a political campaign promise by James Polk when running for president. What new western land is he referring to?
The Oregon Territory jointly occupied by Britain and US
300
These groups of proslavery supporters flooded in from surrounding states during the "Bleeding Kansas" event.
Border Ruffians
300
James K. Polk successfully added which parcels of land?
C - Texas was annexed
E - Oregon Territory resolved with British
D - Mexican Cessions from Mexican-American War
300
The Wilmot Proviso (which was proposed but not accepted) would have done what after the Mexican-American War?
Outlawed slavery in the territory acquired from the Mexican Cession.
400
What is this a map of above?
Compromise of 1850
400
Which piece of land was won through the Mexican-American War?
D
400
How did the Lincoln-Douglass debates of the late 1850s affect America?
It brought notoriety to Abraham Lincoln and the Republican party.
400
Slavery ignited passions in all aspects of life. What Congressional skirmish proved this to be true?
Preston Brooks caned Charles Sumner
400
William Lloyd Garrison is most closely associated with which movement and how?
Abolition movement; He published The Liberator which was an antislavery newspaper in the North.
500
What is this a map of?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
500
How would the Kansas-Nebraska Act undo the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
By allowing Kansas and Nebraska to use popular sovereignty, slavery could extend above the 36°30' line
500
How did this book inflame America?
It exposed the horrors of slavery and let people who were not aware or around it know the tragedy. It helped grow the Abolition Movement greatly!
500
How did Dred Scott profoundly affect America?
By moving a slave from a free state it was deemed by the Supreme Court that slaves were property and thus could be taken ANYWHERE in America and that the Missouri Compromise was unconsitutional on the grounds it denied rights of property.
500
The original Triumverate in Congress of Clay (west), Calhoun (south) and Daniel Webster (north) were replaced in the mid 1800s by which younger voices?
Jefferson Davis (south)
Stephen Douglas (west "new great compromiser")
William Seward (north)