This area was settled during Polk's administration after he claimed we had an unquestionable right to all of it.
What is the Oregon territory
100
This man led the Mexican army
Who is Santa Anna
100
James K Polk was elected in 1844 on what platform/topic
What is expansion
100
(Choice: Mexican Army or Rebels)
They won the Battle of the Alamo
What is the Mexican Army
100
(Review) Which abolitionist wrote "The Liberator"
Who is William Lloyd Garrison
200
This territory claimed their independence from Mexico in 1836.
What is Texas
200
He led settlers into Texas...until they outnumbered the Mexicans living there and Mexico finally decided to close their borders.
Who is Steve Austin
200
Lincoln lost a Senate seat to this man
Who is Stephen A Douglas
200
(Choices: popular vote or electoral vote)
Lincoln won by an overwhelming majority of the ___ in 1860.
What is electoral vote
200
What transportation project from Albany to Buffalo was completed in 1825
What is the Erie Canal
300
This area, (part of the Mexican Cession) was settled before others due to the gold rush.
What is California
300
This man led a raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia and later became a martyr for the abolitionist cause.
Who is John Brown
300
In the election of 1860 this political party broke into two (the northerners and southerners)...John Breckinridge was one of their candidates.
What is the Democrats
300
Choices: nationalism or sectionalism
The Kansas-Nebraska Act created this. (By the way, we wanted to settle the Kansas-Nebraska territory in order to complete a transcontinental railroad)
What is sectionalism
300
What percentage of the nation's exports came from cotton in 1860?
What is 58%
400
As part of the Compromise of 1850 a boundary dispute was settled between these two areas.
What is New Mexico & Texas
400
This person beat up Charles Sumner on the floor of the Senate after he criticized Andrew Butler's practice of owning slaves.
Who is Preston Brooks
400
This political party was anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant
What is the American Party (a.k.a. the "Know Nothings")
400
(Choices: Treaty of San Jacinto or Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo)
Which treaty allowed us to fulfill Manifest Destiny?
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
400
Who was Texas' first president?
Who was Sam Houston
500
This was the reason that Americans made the Gadsen purchase
What is in order to complete a transcontinental railroad.
500
This was the name of the Chief Justice during the Dred Scott decision
Who was Roger Taney
500
The last ditch effort to avoid war by coming to a peaceful, yet political decision, was called what? (It failed)
What is Crittenden's Compromise
500
Choices: 36' 30 or 54' 40
Which line was "erased" by the Dred Scot decision?
What is 36' 30
500
(Haven't covered it yet)...
He was the president of the Confederate States of America.