Topic 5.2
The US justified its westward expansion with this theory.
Manifest Destiny
President that helped America expand to the Pacific Coast.
James K. Polk
Concept of voters choosing if slavery should be allowed in a new territory.
Popular Sovereignty
Term that describes the fear and discrimination against immigrants.
Nativist
This act would create two new territories in the mid-west.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This government funded project helped open up the great plains to settlement.
Transcontinental Railroad
Westward expansion helped increase feelings of national pride called....
Nationalism
Bill that attempted to ban slavery in the new lands taken from Mexico.
Wilmot Proviso
Political party established to try and limit the rights of new immigrants.
Know Nothing Party
Landmark Supreme Court case in 1857 that drove the nation closer to war.
Dred Scott Case
This law gave 160 acres to settlers for free under certain conditions.
Homestead Act
The Mexican War started because of a boundary dispute over this territory.
Texas
This created the new state of California.
Compromise of 1850
Nickname for the passage of escaped slaves to the North.
Underground Railroad
Nickname for the fighting between pro and anti-slavery forces in Kansas.
Bleeding Kansas
Settlers of the Mormon religion found a home in this territory.
Utah
The new territories added to the US created more tension over this issue.
Expansion of slavery.
New political party that wanted to end slavery for economic concerns.
Free Soil Party
Most famous "conductor" of the underground railroad.
Harriet Tubman
He was famously beat on the floor of Congress.
Charles Sumner
Commodore Matthew Perry helped open this Asian nation to US trade.
Japan
Treaty that ended the Mexican War.
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
The most controversial part of the Compromise of 1850.
Fugitive Slave Law
Bestselling novel that told the story of the evils of slavery.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
New political party whose platform wanted slavery not to expand into the territories.
Republican Party