Manifest Destiny & Westward Expansion
This belief justified U.S. territorial expansion to the Pacific and was coined by John L. O’Sullivan
What is Manifest Destiny?
This 1848 treaty ended the Mexican-American War
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This 1850 law required the return of escaped enslaved people to their owners
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States
What is the 13th Amendment?
This party emerged in the 1850s opposing the expansion of slavery
What is the Republican Party?
This 1844 slogan promoted expansion of U.S. territory into Oregon
What is 'Fifty-Four Forty or Fight'?
This U.S. general won the Battle of Buena Vista during the war
Who is Zachary Taylor?
(DAILY DOUBLE) This book by Harriet Beecher Stowe intensified Northern opposition to slavery
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
This amendment granted citizenship to all born in the U.S. and ensured equal protection
What is the 14th Amendment?
This violent event in Kansas symbolized the failure of popular sovereignty
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
This treaty resolved the Maine-Canada border dispute in 1842
What is the Webster-Ashburton Treaty?
(DAILY DOUBLE) This proposal attempted to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
This compromise admitted California as a free state and enacted a strict Fugitive Slave Law
What is the Compromise of 1850?
(DAILY DOUBLE) This labor system replaced slavery but kept many African Americans in poverty
What is sharecropping?
He led a failed raid on Harpers Ferry to spark a slave rebellion
Who is John Brown?
(DAILY DOUBLE) This 1854 treaty opened Japanese ports to American trade
What is the Kanagawa Treaty?
This purchase secured land for a southern transcontinental railroad in 1853
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
This 1854 act allowed territories to decide slavery by popular sovereignty
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
These laws were passed in the South to restrict the rights of freedmen
What are the Black Codes?
(DAILY DOUBLE) This 1860 candidate's election triggered Southern secession
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This group helped escaped enslaved people reach safety in the North or Canada
What is the Underground Railroad?
This short-lived republic was created by American settlers in California in 1846
What is the Bear Flag Republic?
This 1857 Supreme Court case ruled that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This secretive group used violence to suppress Black political participation
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This term describes the radical Southern faction advocating for secession before the war
Who are the "fire-eaters"?