Manifest Destiny
What is the belief that the U.S. was predestined to span the entire North American continent?
What is Manifest Destiny?
President Thomas Jefferson purchased $15 million worth of land, also known as the Louisiana Purchase, from this French leader in 1803.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
Texians defeated Santa Anna and the Mexicans at this battle of the Texas Revolution.
What is the Battle of San Jacinto?
The balance between free and slave states was disrupted when this state wanted to join the Union as a slave state.
What is Missouri?
In 1861, the Confederacy fired on Union troops at this location, starting the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
President Jefferson sent these two men to find a path to the Pacific Ocean.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
This president was the first to declare war, resulting in the War of 1812.
Who is James Madison?
After the Indian Removal Act, this name was given to the journey that led Native Americans to Oklahoma.
What is Trail of Tears?
This compromise allowed California to join as a free state, Utah and New Mexico could decide if they'd be a free state, and the Fugitive Slave Act passed, allowing freed African-Americans to be returned to the south.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
The bloodiest battle of the Civil War was fought here, leading President Lincoln to give his infamous speech about uniting the country and preserving the union.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
Who is Sacajawea?
This African-American abolitionist sued the United States for his freedom, but lost as the judge determined "African Americans" had no rights".
Who is Dred Scott?
The area in the southwest territory that belong to Mexico was called this. Santa Fe is the modern capital of this massive area.
What is New Mexico Territory?
This act repealed the Missouri Compromise, meaning free/slave state boundaries would no longer exist along the 36-30 latitude line, but that any state chould choose to be a free or slave state.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)?
Lincoln delivered this speech after the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This land west of the Rocky Mountains were claimed by the U.S. and Britain, and was desirable by settlers moving west.
What is Oregon Country?
This abolitionist attacked and killed pro-slavery forces as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854).
Who is John Brown?
Americans were hesitant to annex this state because northerners did not want to add another slave to the Union, and it could also start a war with Mexico.
What is Texas?
This regional division is the latitude line that established whether new states would enter as free or slave states as of 1820.
What is 36-30?
April 1865, Lee surrended to Grant at this Virgina town, ending the Civil War.
What is Appomattox, VA?
This line of latitude defines the border between the U.S. and Canada.
What is the 49th parallel?
This president won the election of 1844 and was determined to expand land west to the Pacific Ocean.
Who is James K. Polk?
The acquisition (or gaining) of modern-day New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Texas are a result from America winning what war?
What is the Mexican-American War?
In 1854, an Illinois senator advocated for this change to how states came into the Union. As a result, states could vote for their state to become a free or slave state.
What is popular sovereignty?
Lincoln's "Emancipation Proclamation" freed slaves here.
What is the south/confederate states.