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This president annexed Texas in 1845.
Who was John Tyler?
This state is where gold was discovered in 1848.
The belief that the US had a god-given right to expand westward.
What is manifest destiny?
This previous compromise was overruled by the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Who was Stephen Douglas?
This city was occupied by US troops, ending the Mexican-American army.
What is Mexico City?
This treaty granted large swaths of land out west to the United States.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Term for the growing differences between different areas of the US prior to the Civil War.
What is sectionalism?
This congressman introduced a bill to ban slavery in states acquired from Mexico.
Who was David Wilmot?
This is the town where Sutter's Mill can be found.
What is Coloma, California?
What is a free state?
How the issue of slavery was to be determined in Kansas-Nebraska.
What is popular sovereignty?
This man discovered gold at Sutter's Mill.
Who was James W. Marshall?
This port city was captured by General Winfield Scott, a pivotal catalyst for the end of the Mexican-American War.
What is Veracruz?
This congressman attempted to avoid the Civil War with various compromises, instead sending the United States directly towards it.
Who was Henry Clay?
This act forced Northern slaves to send escaped slaves to the South.
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?