Westward Expansion
This belief said the U.S. was destined to expand west.
What is Manifest Destiny
This 1820 agreement created a line dividing slave and free territories.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This idea allowed settlers to vote on slavery.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
This order "freed" enslaved people in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This term means strong loyalty to one’s region.
What is Sectionalism?
This 1803 deal doubled the U.S. Territory.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This set of laws admitted California as free but strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This 1854 law led to violence.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This battle was a major turning point in 1863.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This anti-immigrant movement grew in the 1800s.
What is Nativism?
This treaty ended the war with Mexico and gave land to the U.S.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This failed proposal tried to ban slavery in land from Mexico.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
This Supreme Court case ruled that enslaved people were not citizens.
What is Scott v. Sanford?
This term means requiring people to serve in the military.
What is Conscription?
These Mexican residents lived in California before U.S. control.
What are Californios?
This war between the U.S. and Mexico lasted from 1846–1848.
What is the Mexican-American War?
This ideology wanted to completely end slavery everywhere.
What is Abolitionism?
This violent conflict in involved pro- and anti-slavery settlers.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This legal protection against unlawful imprisonment was suspended by Lincoln.
What is Habeas Corpus?
This religious group migrated to Utah to escape persecution.
Who are the Mormons?
This independent nation existed before joining the U.S. in 1845.
What is the Republic of Texas?
This party opposed the spread of slavery into new territories.
What is the Free Soil Party?
This election led Southern states to secede.
What is the Election of 1860?
These slave states stayed in the Union and were very important.
What are Border States?
This racist performance practice was common in 1800s entertainment.
What is Blackface?