Causes of the War
This 1845 action brought Texas into the United States.
What is annexation?
This treaty ended the war in 1848.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
He called the war "one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation."
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This 1850 law required officials to help capture people accused of escaping slavery.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This word means a state's formal withdrawal from the Union.
What is secession?
Mexico said the Texas border was this river, while the U.S. said it was the Rio Grande.
What is the Nueces River?
The U.S. paid Mexico this amount under the treaty.
What is $15 million?
In his war message, Polk said Mexico had "shed" this "upon the American soil."
What is American blood?
Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel turned many Northerners against slavery.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
South Carolina seceded in December 1860 after this man was elected president.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
President Polk sent this man to Mexico to offer to buy California and New Mexico.
Who is John Slidell?
This general captured Mexico City in September 1847.
Who is Winfield Scott?
Grant called annexation "a conspiracy to acquire territory" for these.
What are slave states?
This name describes the violence between pro- and anti-slavery settlers in Kansas.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
Under the Kansas-Nebraska Act, settlers in a territory decided on slavery by vote. This idea has this two-word name.
What is popular sovereignty?
This general led U.S. troops into the land between the Nueces and the Rio Grande.
Who is Zachary Taylor?
This name describes the land Mexico gave up, including California and most of the Southwest.
What is the Mexican Cession?
Grant wrote that "the Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of" this.
What is the Mexican American War?
In this 1857 Supreme Court case, Chief Justice Taney ruled that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This abolitionist was hanged in 1859 after trying to seize the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
Grant wrote that the army went past the Nueces "apparently in order to" do this.
What is force Mexico to start the war?
This 1846 proposal would have banned slavery in any land taken from Mexico. It passed the House but failed in the Senate.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
In his 1845 inaugural address, Polk said enlarging the nation's limits would extend the "dominions of" this.
What is peace?
The Republican Party formed in 1854 in opposition to this act, which let settlers vote on slavery.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
In his "House Divided" speech, Lincoln said the government could not endure "permanently half slave and half" this.
What is free?