Westward
This 19th-century belief was used to justify the American desire to expand the United States all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
Manifest Destiny
The election of this Republican president in 1860 led directly to the secession of several Southern states.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The invention of this machine increased the desire for slavery in the South.
What is the Cotton Gin?
This 1844 presidential candidate won on an expansionist platform, promising to acquire both Texas and Oregon.
Who is James K. Polk
This President purchased the Louisiana Territory
Who is President Thomas Jefferson
Passed in 1820, this legislation prohibited slavery north of the 36/30 latitude line in the Louisiana Territory, with one exception
Missouri Compromise
This term describes the violent conflict between Free State men and neighboring Missourians in the mid-1850s.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This secret network was supported by abolitionists to help runaway slaves reach freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This radical abolitionist led a raid on Harpers Ferry and wrote a letter from the "Kansas War" describing the territory as being in the power of "Free State men."
Who is John Brown?
The "unwritten constitution" includes traditions not explicitly in the document, such as political parties and this group of presidential advisors.
What is the Cabinet?
The principle that allowed settlers in territories like Kansas and Nebraska to decide the slavery issue by popular vote
Popular Sovereignty
In 1857, the Supreme Court ruled in this case that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories and that enslaved people were property, not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
The collapse of the Whig Party gave rise to this new major party in 1854, dedicated to preventing the extension of slavery.
What is the Republican Party
This famous abolitionist and former slave gave a speech asking, "What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July?"
Who is Frederick Douglass?
A "strict" versus "loose" interpretation of the Constitution was a debate most evident in the creation of this financial institution in 1791.
What is the Bank of the United States?
This 1854 Act repealed the Missouri Compromise and led to violence in the territories
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This 1852 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe helped shed light on the system of slavery and increased sectional tension.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This was an attempt to stop the discussion of this topic in Congress.
"Gag Rule"
This Supreme Court Chief Justice wrote the majority opinion in the Dred Scott case, ruling that Black people were not citizens.
Who is Roger Taney
In 1798, the Federalist Congress passed these laws targeting immigrants and critics of the government, leading Jefferson and Madison to draft the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions in protest.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
This Northern state entered the Union to balance out Missouri
Maine
This term refers to a Northern President who was soft on the issue of slavery. Examples include Presidents Fillmore, Pierce and Buchanan
Doughfaces
This specific legislation was often opposed by abolitionists because it forced Northerners to help capture runaway slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This former President joined the Confederacy as a Congressman after its creation
Who was Former President John Tyler
Defended by John Adams in court, British soldiers were acquitted of murder after this March 5, 1770, event that resulted in the deaths of five colonists, including Crispus Attucks.
What is the Boston Massacre?