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| party that favored a national bank, protective tariffs and eventually the abolition of slavery | ||
| This expression was popular in the 1840s. Many people believed that the U.S. was destined to secure territory from "sea to sea," from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. This rationale drove the acquisition of territory. | ||
| Original settler of Texas, granted land from Mexico on condition of no slaves, convert to Roman Catholic, and learn Spanish | ||
| United States politician and military leader who fought to gain independence for Texas from Mexico and to make it a part of the United States (1793-1863) | ||
| Mexican general who tried to crush the Texas revolt and who lost battles to Winfield Scott and Zachary Taylor in the Mexican War (1795-1876) | ||
| US Secretary of State Daniel Webster and British ambassador Lord Alexander Ashburton created a treaty splitting New Brunswick territory into Maine and British Canada; also settled boundary of the Minnesota territory (giving iron-rich Mesabi range to US) | ||
| a period from1848 to 1856 when thousands of people came to California in order to search for gold. | ||
| Painter and scientist with lenard gale built an electromagnetic telagraph he asked congress to fund it and they did (morse code) | ||
| Includes California admitted as a free state, the Fugitive Slave Act, Made popular sovereignty in most other states from Mexican- American War | ||
| Enacted by Congress in 1793 and 1850, these laws provided for the return of escaped slaves to their owners. The North was lax about enforcing the 1793 law, with irritated the South no end. The 1850 law was tougher and was aimed at eliminating the underground railroad. | ||
| a system of secret routes used by escaping slaves to reach freedom in the North or in Canada | ||
| author of Uncle Tom's Cabin | ||
| Wrote The Impending Crisis, a book about slavery. He said the non-slave holding whites were the ones who suffered the most from slavery. He was captured and killed by Southerners | ||
| defended slavery as a natural part of hierarchical society | ||
| created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands, repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and allowed settlers in those territories to determine if they would allow slavery within their boundaries. | ||
| the American Party; anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic | ||
| Opens American business to Japan | ||
| a slogan used to say that either slavery expands westward, or the south will fight | ||
| Conflict between the US and Mexico that after the US annexation of Texas, which Mexico still considered its own. As victor, the US aqcuired vast new territories from Mexico through the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. | ||
| an American military officer, explorer, the first candidate of the Republican Party for the office of President of the United States, and the first presidential candidate of a major party to run on a platform in opposition to slavery. | ||
| the peace treaty that ended the Mexican-American War. The treaty provided for the Mexican Cession, in which Mexico ceded 525,000 square miles to the US in exchange for US$15 million. | ||
| bill that would ban slavery in the territories acquired after the war with mexico | ||
| People who opposed expansion of slavery into western territories | ||
| GB and US said that neither nation would or could attempt to take exclusive control of any future canal route in Central America | ||
| Acquired additional land from Mexico for $10 million to facilitate the construction of a southern transcontinental railroad. (432) | ||
| The concept that political power rests with the people who can create, alter, and abolish government. People express themselves through voting and free participation in government | ||
| A sequence of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery elements that took place in Kansas-Nebraska Territory. The dispute further strained the relations of the North and South, making civil war imminent. | ||
| abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1858) | ||
| Where the U.S. arsenal was located when it was attacked by John Brown | ||
| Gives speech the crime against kansas/attacks southerners for forcing slavery on kansas/brooks-begins to defend honor of south/ brooks beats sumner with his cane/ | ||
| Outlawed Missouri Compromise. Denial of slavery was a 5th amendment property violation. Blacks were NOT citizens | ||
| over Senate seat for Illinois (Douglas victor), Lincoln stated the country could not remain split over the issue of slavery | ||
| Abraham Lincoln -"house divided against itself cannot stand" -We have to be all slave or all free -Wants union preserved -reference to Dred Scott | ||
| Doctrine developed by Stephen Douglas that said the exclusion of slavery in a territory could be determined by the refusal of the voters to enact any laws that would protect slave property. It was unpopular with Southerners, and thus cost him the election. | ||
| A compromise by Senator Crittenden of Kentucky which proposed banning slavery north of 36 30, protecting it south, and allowing all new states to choose. -Shot down by Lincoln. |
