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| 3636177882 | Lewis Cass | Democratic Candidate selected for the election of 1848. He was a veteran of the War of 1812 and an experienced senator and diplomat. | 0 | |
| 3636177883 | Popular Sovereignty | The doctrine that stated that it was up to each individual state on the issue of slavery--the federal government should not decide that for them. This was established by Lewis Cass, making his views on slavery well-known, even though his party did not officially have any views. | 1 | |
| 3636177884 | Zachary Taylor | The Whig party's nomination for the presidency in 1848 | 2 | |
| 3636177885 | Free Soil Party | The party that advocated complete abolition of slavery in the new territories and all states, attracting a variety of followers. | 3 | |
| 3636177886 | California Gold Rush | The 1849 influx of settlers in California who were seeking gold. | 4 | |
| 3636177887 | Seventh of March speech | Daniel Webster's speech in congress in 1850 that advocated compromise over the issue of slavery, strengthening Union sentiment | 5 | |
| 3636177888 | William H. Seward | The freshman senator from New York who spoke against both secession and slavery , not using the power of compromise. | 6 | |
| 3636177889 | Millard Fillmore | Taylor's vice president who took over as the 13th president of the US after Taylor's death | 7 | |
| 3636177890 | Compromise of 1850 | Act of congress ordering that California was admitted as a free state, Texas gave up its claims to tracts of New Mexico (was paid for it), New Mexico and Utah would be slave states when admitted, and a more stringent fugitive-slave law was passed. | 8 | |
| 3636177891 | fire-eaters | Southerners in favor of secession who announced the convention in Nashville to discuss leaving the union. | 9 | |
| 3636177892 | Fugitive Slave Law | The "Bloodhound Bill" of 1850 that took away many rights from blacks and made whites who helped runaway slaves liable to fines and imprisonment. | 10 | |
| 3636177893 | Franklin Pierce | The Democratic candidates in the 1852 election,a second Dark Horse, being an unknown lawyer from New Hampshire | 11 | |
| 3636177894 | Winfield Scott | Hero of the war with Mexico, he was the Whig's candidate in the 1852 election whose defeat effectively ended the Whig party. | 12 | |
| 3636177895 | Clayton-Bulwer Treaty | The 1850 treaty that prevented both the US and Britain from seeking complete control of the Central American isthmus | 13 | |
| 3636177896 | William Walker | American adventurer who seized Nicaragua and opened it to slavery, but was overthrown by other South American governments and killed. | 14 | |
| 3636177897 | Black Warrior | the American Steamship that was seized by Cubans which sparked conflict between the two countries | 15 | |
| 3636177898 | Ostend Manifesto | The proclamation that the US would pay $120 million for Cuba, and if Spain refused the US would be justified in taking it if it threatened the US, but the proclamation was dropped by Pierce. | 16 | |
| 3636177899 | Opium War | A war between China and Britain that resulted in Britain's right to sell opium in China, causing the US to want to catch up in the Pacific market | 17 | |
| 3636177900 | Treaty of Wanghia | The first formal diplomatic agreement between the US and China, it gave the US "most favored nation" status in China, granting them any trading rights. | 18 | |
| 3636177901 | Caleb Cushing | American diplomat who negotiated the Treaty of Wanghia with China. | 19 | |
| 3636177902 | Matthew Perry | American negotiator to Japan who negotiated the Treaty of Kanagawa | 20 | |
| 3636177903 | Treaty of Kanagawa | American treaty with Japan that cracked their isolationism of several centuries. | 21 | |
| 3636177904 | Gadsden Purchase | Cession of land by Mexico to the US for $10 million that provided a viable railroad rout from Houston to Los Angeles | 22 | |
| 3636177905 | Kansas-Nebraska Act | Separated the unorganized territory of Nebraska into two parts, allowing each to chose their position on slavery by popular sovereignty, while repealing the Missouri Compromise | 23 |
