Expansion
The notion that the U.S. had the right to expand from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean, given to them by God.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The country was Texas belonged to before being acquired by the U.S.
What is Mexico?
A group of people who wanted to abolish slavery everywhere, even where it was already existent and legal.
What were abolitionists?
The idea that the inhabitants of each territory should decide on the issue of slavery for themselves.
What was popular sovereignty?
The war that broke out after southern states seceded and created the Confederacy.
What was the Civil War?
Which country had also staked claim to Oregon, prior to the U.S. gaining the Oregon Territory?
What was England?
The reason that multiple presidents were hesitant to admit Texas into the US.
What is to avoid war with Mexico?
A movement that advocated that slavery be off-limits to new territories gained from the Mexican-American War.
What was the Free Soil Movement?
A legislator known for drawing up multiple successful compromises.
Who was Henry Clay?
What was the original reason for which Abraham Lincoln declared war on the South/Confederacy?
What was to keep the country united, or to reunite the country?
The name of the U.S. President who embodied the ideals of Manifest Destiny in the 1800s?
Who was James K. Polk?
A war that began because Texas wanted to be annexed by the U.S, and the U.S. wanted to annex Texas.
What is the Mexican-American War?
The political party that was perceived by the South as aiming to ban slavery everywhere in the US.
The compromise that admitted two new states: one as a free state, and one as a slave state.
What was the Compromise of 1820, or the Missouri Compromise?
The legislation that made the Civil War about slavery.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
Which territories became part of the U.S. under President Polk?
What are Oregon, Texas, and California?
Two requirements Mexicans had placed over residents in Texas, that American immigrants refused to follow.
What is conversion to Catholicism and the prohibition of slavery?
Which slaves did the Emancipation Proclamation affect?
Who were slaves in the Confederate states only?
The compromise that had California enter as a free state, while also enacting the Fugitive Slave Act.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
The party that was created in response to the growing influx of Irish and German immigrants.
What was the Know-Nothing Party?
What were three practical reasons for which people wanted to move west?
What were to find natural resources, to search for new economic opportunities, and for religious freedom?
What was the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
A proposal that slavery be banned from new territories gained from the Mexican Cession, which highlighted the developing tensions around the issue of slavery.
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
The compromise over slavery that called for popular sovereignty in certain territories. It resulted in violence
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
A military strategy where the U.S. would use its naval advantage to blockade Southern ports and control the Mississippi River, suffocating the South and splitting the Confederacy into two pieces.
What was the Anaconda Plan?