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Gold was discovered here in 1849 causing thousands of prospectors to settle here.
What is California?
This party arose in 1854 as a response to nativism.
What is the Know-Nothing party?
Who was Dred Scott?
This was the first state to secede from the Union.
What was South Carolina?
This amendment made slavery unconstitutional.
What was the 13th?
This was the first American conflict to be fought primarily on foreign soil.
What was the Mexican-American War?
This new party's platform consisted of barring slavery in the territories and for the federal government to provide free homesteads to settlers in new territories.
What was the Free Soil party?
This said that California could enter as a free state but also forced Northerners to enforce the Fugitive Slave Law.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
What was the Confederacy?
This man became president after Lincoln was assassinated.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
These are the states that were part of the Mexican Session Territory that the U.S. obtained as a result of the Mexican-American War.
What are New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, California, Texas, and western Colorado?
This party arose in the 1850s as a mix of antislavery Democrats, northern Whigs, Free Soilers, and Know Nothings. They were opposed to the expansion of slavery and would become the major opponent to Democratic Party.
What was the Republican party?
This said that citizens of these territories could decide for themselves if they wanted their territories to be slave or free.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This decree, issued on January 1, 1863, freed slaves in the Southern states, not under Union control.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
This organization was established to help freed slaves. It was to establish schools and provide aid to the poor.
What was the Freedman's Bureau?
Although the Mexican-American war is considered only as a footnote in American history, Mexicans regard the Mexican-American war as this.
What is the dismemberment?
Abraham Lincoln was a member of this party.
What was the Republican Party?
This prohibited slavery in all land acquired by Mexico.
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
Who was General Grant?
These were laws passed by the new southern governments that tried to control the lives of freed slaves.
What are black codes?
This is the major question that causes debate as new territory is added to the Union.
Will there be slavery in the new territories?
Lincoln won the 1860 election against this man.
Who was Douglas?
This abolitionists led an attack on the U.S. arsenal at Harper's Ferry.
Who was John Brown?
This was the site of the Southern surrender to the North.
What was Appomattox?
This group in Congress wanted to punish the South and its most extreme members wanted to take land from plantation owners and divide it among former slaves.
Who were the Radical Republicans?