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An agreement made to incorporate slaves population into voting without giving them the right to vote.
What is the 3/5th's compromise?
The 11th president who believed in Manifest Destiny leading the U.S. into war with Mexico.
Who is James K. Polk?
The belief that the United States was divinely ordained to expand its territory across the entire North American continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
A novel that was published in 1852 written from the perspective of an enslaved man, telling the horrors and truths about slavery that opened the eyes of many white people.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
The candidates for the 1860 election.
Who is Abraham Lincoln, John C. Breckinridge, Stephen A. Douglas, and John Bell.
An act that allowed the territories Kansas and Nebraska's residence to determine if the state should allow slavery.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska act?
Mexican President who served 12 terms and served as a military leader and secretly worked as a double agent.
Who is Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna?
Policies that were aimed at Indigenous people to suppress cultures and religious beliefs.
What is the assimilation movement?
A state that applied to be a free state in 1849, and caused trouble with the balance with free and slave states.
What is California?
State that succeed from the union because they believed the government was changing their way of life and abolishing slavery.
An act that allowed federal agents to help hunt and capture runaway slaves, and court-appointed commissioners who were paid double to determine the accused were runaways.
What is the Fugitive Slave act?
The day congress declared war on Mexico.
What is May 13, 1846?
Act in 1871 that ignored Indian society and nullified all previous treaties.
What is the Indian Appropriation act?
A series of proposals by Henry Clay to avert sectional crisis and potential succession.
What is the Great Compromise?
What is Lincoln's Inaugural address?
An act that aimed to dismember any Native American cultures into single families and force them into American culture.
What is the Dawes act?
The amount of land gained from the Mexican territory after establishing the borders.
What is 900,000 square miles of land?
The final violent act in 1890 that led to the U.S. army killing over 200 Native Americans.
What is the Wounded Knee?
A proposal to outlaw slavery in the new Mexican territory that was supported by Northern Whigs and Democrats, and brought the topic of slavery into congressional debates.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
What are Border states?
A U.S. law that gave American citizens 160 acres of land with the hope to improve the land.
What is the Homestead act?
The 4 battles that lead up to the ultimate loss of Mexico.
What is the Battle of San Pasquale, Battle of Rio San Gabriel, Battle of Rio Monterrey, and the Battle of Buena Vista?
Man who wrote The Significance of the Frontier in American History, an essay warning about the effects of closing the frontier.
Who is Frederick Jackson Turner?
A woman who escaped slavery but because of the fugitive slave act was recaptured and brought back to slavery and attempted to kill her children.
Theirs strengths were bigger population and more access to weaponry because of factories in the Civil War.