Expansion
Name for those who traveled to California during the Gold Rush in 1849
What are the 49ers?
Anti-immigrant party
Who are the Know-Nothings?
Who are the American Party?
Someone who brought settlers to Texas when it was a part of Mexico, in exchange for land
Who are empresarios?
Important Anti-slavery literature written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
First state to secede from the Union?
What is South Carolina?
Reason for the Mexican-American War
What is disputes over the boundary of Texas (US said the boundary was the Rio Grande, Mexico said the boundary was the Nueces River)
Political party that did not want slavery or African Americans in the West
Who is the Free Soil Party?
The idea that the United States had a divine right and duty to settle the West
What is manifest destiny?
Abolitionist who raided the arsenal at Harper's Ferry to supply arms for a slave revolt
Who is John Brown?
First conflict of the Civil War
What is Fort Sumpter?
Mission attacked by Santa Anna and his army, where all but a few Americans were killed (this was a conflict prior to Texas' independence)
What is the Alamo?
Act proposed by Stephen Douglas that led to Bleeding Kansas
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Title for pro-slavery Missourians who rushed into Kansas to vote
Who are border ruffians?
Man who sued for his freedom, the case went to the Supreme Court, who ruled against him
Who was Dred Scott?
Union advantages
What are population?
What are factories and railroads?
What is money?
Settlers and native Mexicans encountered conflicts over these things in Texas
What is slavery?
What is Catholicism?
Abolitionist party; wanted slavery to be abolished immediately
Who is the Liberty Party?
Political ideal where the power in the government comes from the people; specifically referenced in this chapter when the people living in a state or territory can vote on whether it will be a free state or a slave state
What is popular sovereignty?
Party created following the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Lincoln was their first president
What is the Republican Party?
Single bloodiest battle, used by Lincoln to announce the Emancipation Proclamation
What is Antietam?
Term for the territory gained by the United States from Mexico after the Mexican-American war
What is the Mexican cession?
Laws that included
1. CA entering the Union as a free state
2. Popular sovereignty in NM and UT
3. Slave trade made illegal in DC, but slavery remaining
4. Harsh fugitive slave laws
What is the Compromise of 1850?
The long braids of hair worn by Chinese men and cut off for sport by White settlers during the Gold Rush
What are queues?
Violence in the Senate that resulted in a Senator being attacked for speaking out against slavery
What is the Caning of Senator Sumner?
The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in Confederate states, but not in what slave states which Lincoln wanted to remain in the Union?
Who are the border states?