Territorial Expansion
Divine mission for the United States to control North America
Manifest Destiny
Military conflict resulting in American acquisition of large western territory
Mexican-American War
Violent assault on the floor of the US Senate
Sumner-Brooks Incident
New political party only popular in select border states in the election of 1860
Constitutional Union Party
First battle of the Civil War
Fort Sumter
Settled dispute over the Maine-Canada border
Webster-Ashburton Treaty
US General who captured Mexico City in 1847
Winfield Scott
Attempt to steal weapons from a federal arsenal to kickstart a slave rebellion
Raid on Harper's Ferry
German Immigrants
Monitor v Merrimac
Texans massacred here by Mexican Dictator Santa Anna
The Alamo
Pro-Slavery American briefly seized control of Nicaragua to form a new slave state in Central America
The Walker Expedition
Propelled Abraham Lincoln into the national spotlight
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Hostility toward recent immigrants to the USA
Nativism
Deadliest single day of the Civil War occurred at this battle
Antietam
Founder of the Bear Flag Republic
John C. Fremont
Secret proposal to purchase Cuba from Spain
Ostend Manifesto
Allowing voters in the territories decide on slavery
Popular Sovereignty
Constitutional right to be informed of the charges against you when being arrested
Writ of Habeus Corpus
Union path of destruction from Atlanta to Savannah
Sherman's March
Land bought by the USA to be used for a southern railroad
Gadsden Purchase
British and Americans agreed not to seize control of any future canal in Central America
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
Supreme Court ruling that Union unlawfully tried civilians in military courts
Ex Parte Milligan (1866)
Major Union victory on the Mississippi River
Vicksburg