President Polk's claim that "American blood [had been shed] on the American soil" referred to news of an armed clash between Mexican and American troops near
What is the Rio Grande.
100
Stephen A. Douglas's plans for deciding the slavery question in the Kansas-Nebraska scheme required repeal of the
What is Missouri Compromise.
100
The situation in Kansas in the mid-1850s indicated the impracticality of ____ in the territories.
What is popular sovereignty
100
State that first seceded from the U.S.
What is SOUTH CAROLINA
100
14th U.S. President AND Political Party.
Who is Pierce/Democratic
200
In the Oregon treaty with Britain in 1846, the northern boundary of the United States was established to the Pacific Ocean along the line of
What is 49°.
200
For a short time in the 1850s, William Walker, an American adventurer, seized political and military control of
What is Nicaragua.
200
Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, ____________intended to show the cruelty of slavery.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin
200
The Confederacy's most effective commerce-raider was the
What is CSA Alabama.
200
12th U.S. President AND his Political Party.
Who is TAYLOR/WHIG
300
In the 1840s, the view that God had ordained the growth of an American nation stretching across North America was called
What is Manifest Destiny.
300
During the debate of 1850, ____ argued that there was a higher law than the Constitution that compelled him to demand the exclusion of slavery from the territories.
Who was William H. Seward
300
In 1857, the Supreme Court ruled in the ________decision that protection of slavery was guaranteed in all the territories of the United States.
What is Dred Scott
300
__________ III's attempt to install Maximilian on the Mexican throne was a clear violation of the Monroe Doctrine.
Who is Napoleon
300
13th U.S. President AND his political party.
Who is FILLMORE/WHIG
400
The only member of President Tyler's Whig cabinet who did not resign in protest over his policies was
Who is Daniel Webster.
400
The primary objective of Manifest Destiny expansionists in the 1850s was___________ (what country?)
What is Cuba.
400
President James Buchanan's decision on Kansas's __________hopelessly divided the Democratic party.
What is Lecompton Constitution
400
America's minister to Britain, during the Civil War, under President Lincoln was
Who is Charles Francis Adams.
400
16th U.S. President AND his political party.
Who is LINCOLN/REPUBLICAN
500
The ______ was a small-scale clash between lumberjacks in Maine and Canada.
What is Aroostook War
500
The American military leader whose strategic military and diplomatic mission opened Japan up to the United States in 1853-1854 was
Who is Matthew Perry.
500
Abraham Lincoln opposed the _____________because he had been elected on a platform that opposed the extension of slavery.
What is Crittenden Compromise
500
During the Civil War, Britain and the United States were nearly provoked into war by the _____ affair, involving the removal of Southern diplomats from a British ship by a Union warship in 1861.