People
This man was sent to the Mexican-Texan border by Polk, eventually his troops were fired upon..
Zachary Taylor
This led to a large migration westward in the mid 19th century...it will lead to California wanting statehood.
Gold Rush
The idea that people in territories will decide whether slavery exists or not..
Popular Sovereignty
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What is the official start of the Civil War?
Fort Sumter
This man was elected as the one and only president of the Confederacy....
Jefferson Davis
This speech was given by Daniel Webster where he strongly advocated for the Compromise of 1850, urging sectional compromise on the issue of slavery to preserve the Union, despite angering many abolitionists in the North by supporting the Fugitive Slave Act
7th of March Speech
This third party believed that the west should be free (1848)...
Free Soil Party
A document framed in Lecompton, the Territorial Capital of Kansas, in 1857 by Southern pro-slavery advocates of Kansas statehood. It contained clauses protecting slaveholding and a bill of rights excluding free blacks, and it added to the frictions leading up to the U.S. Civil War.
Lecompton Constitution
Name THREE Border States....
Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware, Maryland and West Virginia
This man's trial captivated the nation as his fate was decided that he will remain property....
What was the name of the event where Union troops boarded a British ship looking for Confederate envoys....
Trent Affair
Matthew Perry
Where did John Brown attack and was eventually camptured?
Harper's Ferry, Virginia
What angered people in NY so much that they eventually rioted over the draft?
Rich people could buy their way out of the draft, fighting for a cause they didn't believe in.
This man came up with a last ditch effort to save the union....basically give the south all of the western territories as slave states....
John Crittenden
A position on slavery in U.S. territories that Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas presented during the second Lincoln-Douglas debate in Freeport, Illinois on August 27, 1858
Freeport Doctrine
Name THREE of the 5 components of the Compromise of 1850....
Answers will vary
What were TWO causes of the Panic of 1857?
Gold, Crimean War, Land Speculation
Name TWO things Lincoln did that can be seen as a violation of his power.
Suspended Habeas Corpus, Sent troops, passed laws without congressional approval...
This man took over the presidency after Zachary Taylor's sudden death....
Milliard Fillmore
A white southerner wrote this book argued that non-slave holding whites actually suffered most in the slave economy....Who was the author, what was the book title?
Hinton Helper
An agreement signed in 1850 between the United States and Great Britain to establish a neutral and jointly protected transit route across Central America
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
Why did President James Buchanan do nothing when the South seceded?
1. Lame Duck
2. Pro-slavery advisors/congress
3. Didn't know if he could legally send troops to the soouth.
What was the name of the act that created a common currency for the first time in America?
Legal Tender Act