"Manifest Destiny"
This famous trail stretched from Independence, Missouri to Portland, Oregon, and showed pioneers that they could make the treacherous journey through the mountains.
What is the Oregon Trail.
This slave led a bloody rebellion which caused southern slaveholders to retaliate against them with more violence.
Who is Nat Turner.
What is the Antebellum era.
1848 saw the emergence of this antislavery political party, who opposed the expansion of slavery into the new territories.
What is the Free-Soil Party.
This woman-led movement began as a way to address the evils of alcohol and was an offshoot of religion coupled with the Women's Rights Movement.
The emergence of these helped revolutionize transportation and shipping between regions, and helped to link East and West.
What are railroads.
What is the Underground Railroad.
The annexation of this larger than life state caused tension between Mexico and the United States, which resulted in a war with Mexico.
What is Texas.
In 1845, this U.S. president offered to buy the Republic of California, which prompted a skirmish resulting in US rebel soldiers and settlers, including one Stephen Kearny, claiming the state for themselves.
Who is President James K. Polk.
In 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott announced their participation in this famous Convention, during which they delivered their famous speech, the "Declaration of Sentiments."
What is the Seneca Falls Convention.
This deeply religious group of people, led by polygamist Brigham Young, clashed with other U.S. citizens, and eventually expanded their numbers westward, settling in what is now Salt Lake City, Utah.
In 1846, Pennsylvania Democrat David Wilmot introduced this amendment to a military bill which stated that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist" in any territory that the U.S. had acquired from Mexico.
What is the Wilmot Proviso.
This small war, led by a Native American chief of the same name, was a rebellion against the United States for attempting to expand westward into the lands of the Sauk and Fox people.
What is the Black Hawk War.
These two major acts of Congress occurred in 1850 and 1854, respectively. They sought to mediate the tension between North and South.
What are the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.
These two devices/objects were the most commonly used to restrain and imprison the mentally ill during the 1800s in Massachusetts.
What are chains and cages.
In addition to expanding west in the mid-1800s, the US expanded their markets. In the northeast, the rise of these changed the lives of both workers and consumers alike.
What are factories and/or textile mills.
This "act" of Congress, born out of the Compromise of 1850, stated that any fugitives were not entitled to a trial by jury, and must be returned to their masters.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act.
This bloody 3-day battle is considered to be the turning point of the Civil War due to the heavy losses experienced by General Lee's troops.
What is Gettysburg.
This political party, currently headed by Donald Trump, was formed during the decade leading up to the Civil War.
What is the Republican Party.
These two famous abolitionists, one a black former slave and one a white man in the North, began radical antislavery newspapers in the antebellum period before the Civil War. One wrote "The Liberator" and one spoke about his life in the South.
Who are William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass.
Settlers often experienced great hardships, including food shortages, desolate terrain, unfriendly tribes, and this often fatal illness, contracted from contaminated watering holes along the way.
What is cholera.
In 1856, John Brown and others contributed to the violence that erupted in this territory (now a state), whose fate as a free or slave state hung in the balance.
What is Kansas (Bleeding Kansas).
In 1848, The U.S. and Mexico signed this treaty, which would end the war, establishing the Rio Grande as the border for Texas and ceding California and New Mexico to the U.S.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
In the second debate held between presidential contenders for the election of 1860, Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln asked Douglas if he thought that territories could vote on slavery before they became states. His response to the question became known as this.
What is the Freeport Doctrine.
Famous champion of public schools Horace Mann wrote in 1848 that education would prevent this social condition.
What is poverty.