Failure to Compromise
The name for the violence that occurred in Kansas was to figure out whether it’d be a slave or free state.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This state was first known as the Bear Flag Republic.
What is California?
This compromise bought time for the Union against slavery by admitting California as a free state and banning the slave trade in the District of Columbia.
What is The Compromise of 1850?
This was one of the First states that American wanted, and would cause the Mexican American War.
What is Texas?
This group of Americans were against the immigration of many foreign populations.
Who are nativists?
Lincoln debated this person to try to become senator of Illinois, but ended up losing to them.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
James Polk selected this general to invade central Mexico.
Who is Winfield Scott
This land purchase by President Pierce forms the southern sections of present-day New Mexico and Arizona.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
Why did many people move to California in the 1840’s.
What is gold?
This religious background is a reason the Irish faced discrimination.
What is Roman Catholicism?
This was the name of the group of Ex-Whigs who were afraid of immigration.
Who is the Know-Nothing Party?
The end of the Mexican-American War led to this treaty.
What is the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This political party advocated free homesteads and internal improvements such as roads and harbors.
What is the Free-Soil Party?
This commodore was sent to Japan to negotiate a treaty for trade reasons.
Who is Matthew C.Perry?
This was the path many slaves used in order to seek freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
The state the Republican Party was founded.
What is Wisconsin?
This caused a large debate over slavery which would eventually lead to the Civil War.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
Instead of Congress deciding whether a state should free or slave, Lewis Cass proposed this, allowing the population to decide.
What is popular sovereignty?
This was the Democratic slogan of the 1844 election.
What is Fifty-four Forty or Fight?
This book revealed the brutality of many slave owners and was significantly influential when it was released.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Dred Scott V. Sandford’s case led to these changes to the U.S. Law.
What is African Americans can’t sue people because they aren’t U.S. citizens. Congress can’t take away people’s property, which included slaves, and the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional?
This general moved his army towards the Rio Grande, into Mexican territory.
Who is Zachary Taylor?
This Kentucky Senator proposed The Compromise of 1850.
Who is Henry Clay?
This person succeed in bringing over 300 families into Texas, and causing a migration of Americans to Texas.
Who is Stephen Austin?
This financial panic caused a sharp decrease in prices for Midwestern agricultural products and a sharp increase in unemployment in Northern cities.
What is the Panic of 1857?