Let’s make a Compromise
The compromise in 1820 that established the Slave/Free State divide on the 38th Parallel.
The Missouri Compromise
The President that signed the decree that started the removal of Indians from their homes to Oklahoma.
Andrew Jackson
This act forced northern states to report and allowed bounty hunters to arrest escaping slaves.
The Fugitive Slave Act
Which direction did the United States like to expand during Manifest Destiny.
West
Border Ruffians and Popular Sovereignty led to this conflict in the Kansas Territory.
“Bleeding Kansas”
The compromise that brought in California as a state angered which region of the United States at the time.
The South
The President that started removing Indians from their homes by using the military.
Martin Van Buren
The act that allowed the new territories of Nebraska and Kansas to have popular sovereignty to vote on the matter of becoming a slave or free state.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The U.S. fought this war with Mexico to get the entire South West of the modern United States.
The Mexican-American War
The name of the path that the Cherokee and the other 4 “civilized tribes” took to reach Oklahoma.
The Trail of Tears
The compromise the brought in California as a state into the Union that was signed in 1850.
The Compromise of 1850
The inventor of the Cotton Gin.
Eli Whitney
The treaty that ended the war between the United States and Mexico.
The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
This all powerful being was believed to have blessed the United States and made it their destiny to stretch from sea to shining sea.
God
The war that was fought between Andrew Jackson’s militia and the Seminole Tribe.
The Second Seminole War
The compromise that ended the domestic slave trade in Washington D.C.
The Compromise of 1850
The Supreme Court Chief Justice who opposed the removal of Indians from their homes and declared it unconstitutional.
Chief Justice John Marshall
The purchase from Great Britain to obtain the land that would become the modern day states of Washington and Oregon.
The Oregon Treaty of 1846
The purchase of land from Mexico so that the United States could build the Transcontinental Railroad.
The Gadsden Purchase
The name of the place of the last stand of many famous Texan Revolutionaries.
The Alamo
The competition in Congress that saw new states admitted to the Union under pro-slavery or anti-slavery states.
Slave States v. Free States
This person was the Cherokee Chief that challenged the removal of the Indians in the Supreme Court.
Chief John Ross
The treaty that was given to the United States by unqualified Cherokee Indians, gave the United States all of the Cherokee land in Georgia. This treaty was largely ignored and not seen as legitimate to most Cherokee Indians.
The Treaty of New Echota
This court case was won by the Cherokee nation in the Supreme Court. The result was that the relocation of Native Americans was unconstitutional.
Worcester v. Georgia
his short conflict between American settlers and Great Britain was fought in the San Juan Islands to determine the border between Great Britain and the US in the San Juan Straight.
The Pig War