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This U.S. President is often credited with fulfilling Manifest Destiny by leading the nation into the Mexican-American War, resulting in the acquisition of territories like California and New Mexico.
Who is James K. Polk?
This 1850 law established special federal courts to help capture runaway slaves. This law allowed slave owners' affidavits as proof but denied defendants the right to testify or have a jury trial.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
After the Election of 1860 and President Lincoln’s victory, many southern states seceded from the Union and formed this new nation.
What are the Confederate States of America?
This was a major court court case that partially caused the Civil War.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
The result of the forced relocation of Native Americans to lands west of the Mississippi River.
What is the trail of tears?
The Supreme Court Chief Justice who voiced John Calhoun’s views that slaves were property and could not be restricted. Additionally, he upheld the constitutionality of the Fugitive Slave Act.
Who is Roger B. Taney?
This 1857 Supreme Court ruling denied a slave his claim to freedom and stated that African Americans, free or enslaved, were not citizens.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
This was a proposed plan to determine the status of slavery in new territories without congressional interference.
What is popular sovereignty?
This compromise admitted Missouri as a free state and Maine as a free state while establishing a line at the 36th parallel.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Before the development of agriculture, early human societies relied on this method of subsistence.
What is hunting and gathering?
In response to proslavery violence in Kansas, this radical abolitionist and his followers took matters into their own hands, murdering five proslavery settlers at Pottawatomie Creek in 1856. Their actions were part of a larger conflict known as "Bleeding Kansas.”
Who is John Brown?
The line established in the Missouri Compromise that prohibited new slave states in the Louisiana Purchase.
What is the 36º 30' latitude line?
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This territory was bought for the purpose of building a transcontinental railroad from New Orleans to Los Angeles.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
This novel depicted the harsh realities of slavery and helped change the perspectives of northerners.
What is the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
These documents were the precursor to the Constitution giving little power to the federal government and establishing the equality of the states.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This South Carolina politician, a staunch defender of slavery, proposed a dual presidency to separate the North and South and maintained that neither the Constitution nor Congress could limit slavery in the territories as slaves were property.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
This controversial 1854 law divided the Indian Territory into two new territories. It repealed the Missouri Compromise and established the principle of popular sovereignty.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This document was discretely written by three American diplomats justifying the purchase of a new territory for the purpose of expanding slavery.
What is the Ostend Manifesto?
This violent conflict, which started in the mid 1850s in a U.S territory, was a direct result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
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The signing of the Treaty of Ghent in Belgium ended this major conflict.
What is the War of 1812?
This politician proposed the idea of popular sovereignty.
Who is Lewis Cass?
This treaty between the U.S and Great Britain aimed to prevent either nation from exclusively controlling a proposed canal through Central America.
What is the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty?
This proposed compromise suggested reinstating the fixed boundary between free and slaveholding territories of the MO Compromise to extend to the Pacific. As well as prohibited federal interference with slavery in the states.
What are the Crittenden Amendments?
The federal arsenal targeted in a 1859 raid.
What is Harpers ferry?
This was the largest slave revolt in America, occuring on the east bank of the Mississippi in New Orleans.
What is the German Coast Uprising?