Sectional Tensions
This element was discovered in California in 1848, inspiring thousands of migrants to travel and populate the west coast.
Gold
This treaty settled the Mexican American War (1846-48) and provided the US with a massive expansion of territory in the Mexican Cession
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
This president, a slave-supporting Democrat from Pennsylvania, believed that the confederate states had no constitutional right to secede, yet he also believed that the federal government had no right to stop them
James Buchanan
This political party, whose primary platform goal was to prevent the expansion of slavery, was formed in the 1850s after the Whigs dissolved
Republican Party
This was the concept that it was God's Will for the United States to expand westward
Manifest Destiny
Introduced by Lewis Cass but pushed further by Stephen Douglas, this PLAN or CONCEPT involved allowing states to decide for themselves whether they would permit slavery within their borders.
Popular Sovereignty
This word means 'before the war' and is most often used to describe the period before the Civil War during which southern culture was dominated by slavery and plantation agriculture
Antebellum
The last elected Whig president, a wealthy slave owning war hero from the Mexican American War, most likely died in office due to a stomach virus from contaminated milk and cherries.
Zachary Taylor
This president who assumed the presidency after the death of William Henry Harrison not only fathered 15 children, the most of any president, but he was also driven out of the Whig Party for obstructing most Whig legislation during the early 1840s
John Tyler
The 1857 Supreme Court Case ___________v. Sandford saw the Supreme Court declare that slaves were property, could not sue in court, and even went so far as to state that Congress could not prevent the spread of slavery into the territories.
Dred Scott
Bleeding Kansas (1855-1859) was largely caused by THIS law, which opened the territory for popular sovereignty regarding the issue of slavery
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
Careful to avoid provoking the South, Lincoln's supplying of this FORT in Charleston, South Carolina, prompted the confederate attack that would become the first battle of the Civil War
Fort Sumter
This PRESIDENT's political platform largely rested upon the spoils of manifest destiny. He oversaw the Mexican-American War, the agreement for the Mexican Cession, the admittance of California to the union, and the settlement of the Oregon territory with Great Britain.
James K. Polk
In his last compromising hurrah, Henry Clay developed the Compromise of 1850, a compromise that involved which 3 PRIMARY agreements (hint: 1 for north, 2 for south)
1) California admitted as free state
2) Strict Fugitive Slave Act
3) Mexican Cession territories open to popular sovereignty
The Missouri Compromise (1820) featured these 3 primary agreements:
1) ________ would be a free state
2) ________ would be a slave state
3) There would be no slavery in ______________
1) Maine
2) Missouri
3) Louisiana Purchase (1803)
After American soldiers under Gen. Taylor provoked the Mexicans to fire upon them, sparking the Mexican American War, Abraham Lincoln, a young Whig politician issued THIS, which demanded that the US government show the exact location where the Mexicans attacked.
Spot Resolution
Identify 2 ADVANTAGES that the BOTH the Union AND the Confederacy had during the war
Union:
- industry, transportation, wealth, population, navy
South:
- better generals, defensive war, knew the terrain
This was the president of the Confederacy during the Civil War
Jefferson Davis
Although only 40% of American voters chose him, Abraham Lincoln defeated the disunited Democratic Party in the election of 1860, defeating popular sovereignty advocate Stephen Douglas AND this pro-slavery Democrat from Kentucky
John C. Breckenridge
This sliver of land was purchased in 1853 under the presidency of Franklin Pierce, land that would eventually be part of modern-day Arizona in order to provide a railway route to the Pacific coast.
Gadsden Purchase
Harper's Ferry
Lincoln ingeniously made the goal of the war to preserve the union, NOT destroy slavery. If he were to make it about destroying slavery, he may have lost the vital border states, the slave states that remained loyal to the union. Name 3/4 of them. (West Virginia seceded from Virginia as a free state and therefore does not count)
Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware
John C. Fremont
Not to be confused with a popular character on the tv show FRIENDS, this COMMODORE helped push manifest destiny abroad when in 1852 he arrived in Japan, ending its long period of isolationism and beginning American aspirations of imperializing Asia
Matthew Perry
This FAILED COMPROMISE was hatched in 1860, just before the majority of the southern states eventually joined the Confederacy. It called for all land in the north (above the 36th parallel) to be free and all land in the south to be slave states -- it also protected the Fugitive Slave Act and existing slavery. Lincoln ultimately rejected the compromise.
Crittenden Compromise