Presiders
The 1st Republican president
Abraham Lincoln
The U.S. state that was an independent republic for a bit.
Texas (/ California)
Miners from this country faced real discrimination.
China
The new overland travel tech in the mid 1800's
Train
W. H. Harrison's "common man" campaign slogan
Log Cabin & Hard Cider
The 1st "forgettable" president
Martin van Buren
A term that means something like "obvious path"
Manifest Destiny
Freedom Papers
The device that sent messages by wire across long distances
Telegraph
Lincoln's debate rival
Stephen Douglass
His own cabinet resigned
John Tyler
Oregon
The most famous "conductor" of the underground "railroad"
Harriet Tubman
A popular way news was written & spread.
Newspapers
The Act that made California free, but added the Fugitive Slave Act
Compromise of 1850
James K. Polk
The native tribe that raided the U.S. & Mexico on horseback.
Comanche
The most eloquent former slave.
Frederick Douglass
The technology abolitionists used to show reality and counteract blackface
Photography
Another word for "withdrawing from something"
Secession / to secede
Antonio López de Santa Anna
The name for that violent voting cycle about slavery in Kansas
Bleeding Kansas
The case where the U.S. decided black people couldn't be citizens.
Dred Scott (v. Sanford)
The short-lived horse-based mail service.
Pony Express
The idea that every state could vote on their own handling of slavery
Popular Sovereignty