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Terms
Party or Group
Treaty/Agt./Misc.
100
Inventor of the telegraph
Who is Samuel F. B. Morse
100
Route from Missouri to Oregon
What is the Oregon Trail
100
Gift of public land to an individual or organization
What is a land grant
100
People who came to California in 1849 in search of gold
Who are the forty-niners
100
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
What is the treaty ending the War with Mexico
200
Religious group that settled near present-day Salt Lake City
Who are Mormons
200
Route from Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico
What is the Santa Fe Trail
200
To make part of, incorporate
What is annex
200
Secret network of people who hid fugitive slaves who wnt north to freedom
What is the underground railroad
200
Fugitive Slave Act
What is a law that provided for harsh treatment for escaped slaves and for those who helped them
300
First president of the Republic of Texas
Who is Sam Houston
300
Site of a key battle in the Texas Revolution
What is the Alamo
300
Favoring native-born people over immigrants
What is nativism
300
Know-Nothing Party
What is a political party formed to stop the influence of immigrants
300
Compromise of 1850
What is a series of measures that were intended to settle the disagreements between free states and slave states.
400
Slave who sued for his freedom after being relocated to the free state of Illinois with his master
Who is Dred Scott
400
Location of the federal arsenal that John brown raided to get guns to arm slaves
What is Harpers Ferry
400
Manifest Destiny
What is the belief that the US would expand across the continent
400
Free-Soil Party
What is a political party formed to oppose extending slavery in the territories.
400
Kansas-Nebraska Act
What is a law that split Nebraska into the territories of Nebraska and Kansas and allowed for popular sovereignty there
500
Senator from Illinois who worked to pass the Compromise of 1850
Who is Stephen A. Douglas
500
Independent nation that was created after Texans defeated Mexico in the Texas Revolution
What is the Republic of Texas
500
Popular Sovereignty
What is the idea that people living in a territory should make their own decisions, especially the decision to admit slavery.
500
Republican Party
What is political party formed to oppose extending slavery in the territories
500
Wilmot Proviso
What is a bill that would ban slavery in the territories acquired after the War with Mexico