Manifest Destiny
These two men explored the westward territory of the Louisiana Purchase, confirming its economic and settlement potential.
Lewis & Clark
In 1835 Texans lost this famous battle, where frontiersmen Davey Crockett was killed, in their first attempt at independence from Mexico
The Alamo
What famous Shawnee warrior, son of Chief Blackfoot, died in battle resisting initial American expansion
Tecumseh
This compromise in 1820 established Missouri as a slave state, and established Maine as free state.
Missouri Compromise
This slave rebellion in 1831 that killed 60 Virginia farmers led to an increase in black codes and tensions surrounding slavery.
Nat Turner Rebellion
This trail was the most famous, leading settlers to the northwest. (It would eventually have a video game made in its honor)
Oregon Trail
The discovery of this led to a massive rush to California in 1849.
Gold
This explorer would go on to annex most of California, before making the continent long trek back to Washington to inform the President.
Kit Carson
This compromise admitted California as a free state, and let Utah and New Mexico vote on slavery.
Compromise of 1850
This abolitionist led a raid on federal armory Harpers Ferry n attempt to free slaves in massive slave uprising.
John Brown
This trail allowed settlers to sell goods to Mexico, and would eventually be used to supply troops in the Mexican American war.
Santa Fe Trail
This president became the "Manifest Destiny" President overseeing the acquisitions of Texas and Oregon.
James Polk
The Settlers who helped John Fremont's revolt in California called themselves this animal, which would go on to be on the state flag.
Bears
In 1854 this act was passed to repeal the Missouri Compromise to give residents in westward territories the option to vote on slavery.
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
Name three abolitionists who spoke out against slavery.
William Llyod Garrison
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Fredrick Douglas
Grimke Sisters
Harriet Tubman
John Brown
Mormons would eventually settle in this modern day state, home to Brigham Young University, named after the religious leader who settled them in Salt Lake City.
Utah
These three states would be established following the conclusion the Mexican-American War and British compromise in the Northwest territory.
This man served with Davy Crocket in Andrew Jackson's militia and would go on to help annex Texas, a major Texas city is named after him.
Sam Houston
The election of 1860 led to the nomination of this future president by Republicans, in response to the spread of slavery
Abraham Lincoln
This Supreme Court decision reinforced that slaves were not citizens, and did not have a right to sue.
Dred Scott v. Sanford
This period of time in America before the Civil War (1800-1860) would be known as the _________ Era.
Antebellum Era
This treaty ended the Mexican American War.
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
This future president, and general at the time was Sent by James Polk to provoke war with Mexico leading to the Mexican American War
Zachary Taylor
The Nullification Crisis of 1832 was a failed attempt under President Jackson by this state to secede. They would eventually be the first state to secede in 1861 leading to the Civil War
South Carolina
By the eve of the Civil War in1861, the number of free states had grown to 19 while the number of slave states (regions) remained at 15. Name 10 free states
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Maine, Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin, California, Minnesota, Oregon, Kansas