AP US chapter 18 studyguide
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| in politics, the right of a people to assert its own national identity or form of government without outside influence | ||
| a family home or farm with buildings and land sufficient for survival | ||
| concerning groups that claim to punish crime and maintain order without legal authority to do so | ||
| a place of refuge or protection, where people are safe from punishment by the law | ||
| a person who flees from danger or prosecution | ||
| the precise surface features and details of a place--rivers, bridges, hills--in relation to one another | ||
| belonging to this world, as opposed to the spiritual world | ||
| the art of government leadship | ||
| concerning a narrow strip of land connecting two larger bodies of land | ||
| adventurers who conduct a private war against a foreign country | ||
| a title of the Japanese emperor used by foreigners | ||
| concerning the activities of spies or undercover agents, especially involving elaborate deceptions | ||
| a proclamation or document aggressively asserting a controversial position or advocating a daring course of action | ||
| one who promotes a person or enterprise, especially in a highly enthusiastic way | ||
| a temporary suspension of warfare by agreement of the hostile parties | ||
| the people of a territory should determine for themselves whether or not to permit slavery | ||
| an attempt to ignore the issue | ||
| The very large and unruly population drawn into the state be the discovery of gold | ||
| California's admission as a free state would destroy the equal balance of slave and free states in the U.S. senate | ||
| A stricter federal Fugitive Slave Law | ||
| Henry Clay and Daniel Webster | ||
| Daniel Webster | ||
| California was admitted as a free state, and slavery in Utah and New Mexico territories woudl be left up to popular sovereignty | ||
| the death of President Taylor and the succession of President Fillmore | ||
| The North | ||
| A sharp rise in northern antislavery feeling | ||
| The death of the Whig party | ||
| Nicaragua and Cuba | ||
| Opening Japan to American trade | ||
| It repealed the Missouri Compromise | ||
| hotheaded southern agitators who pushed for southern interests and favored secession from the Union | ||
| the doctrine that the issue of slavery should be decided by the residents of a territory themselves, not by the federal government | ||
| the boundary line between slave and free states in the East, originally the southern border of Pennsylvania | ||
| The informal network that conducted runaway slaves from the south to canada | ||
| Senator Seward's doctrine that slavery should be excluded from the territories as contrary to a divine moral law standing above even the Constitution | ||
| the provision of the Compromise of 1850 that comforted southern slave-catchers and aroused the wrath of northern abolitionists | ||
| third-party entry in the election of 1848 that opposed slavery expansion and prepared the way for the republican party | ||
| a series of agreements between north and south that temporarily dampened the slavery controversy and led to a short-lived era of national good feelings | ||
| an agreement between Britain and America concerning any future Central American canal | ||
| a top-secret dispatch, drawn up by American diplomats in europe, that detailed a plan for seizing cuba from spain | ||
| Southwestern territory acquired by the Pierce administration to facilitate a southern transcontinental railroad | ||
| the sectional agreement of 1820, repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act | ||
| the political party that was deeply divided by Douglas's Kansas-Nebraska Act | ||
| a new political party organized as a protest against the Kansas-Nebraska Act | ||
| Democratic presidential candidate in 1848, original proponent of the idea of "popular sovereignty." | ||
| Whig president who nearly destroyed the Compromise of 1850 before he died in office | ||
| Acquired from Mexico in 1848 and admitted as a free state in 1850 without ever having been a territory | ||
| American diplomat who negotiated the Treaty of Wanghia with China in 1844 | ||
| Famous "conductor" on the Underground Railroad who rescued more than three hundred slaves from bondage | ||
| Northern spokesman whose support for the Compromise of 1850 earned him the hatred of abolitionists | ||
| New york senator who argued that the expansion of slavery was forbidden by a "higher law." | ||
| Nation whose 1844 treaty with the United States opened the door to a flood of American missionaries | ||
| Weak Democratic president whose pro-southern cabinet pushed aggressive expansionists schemes | ||
| Military hero of the Mexican War who became the Whigs' last presidential candidate in 1852 | ||
| Central American nation desired by pro-slavery expansionists in the 1850s | ||
| American naval commander who opened Japan to the West in 1854 | ||
| Rich Spanish colony coveted by American proslavery expansionists in the 1850s | ||
| The ruling warrior dynasty of Japan with whom Matthew Perry negotiated the Treaty of Kanagawa of 1854 | ||
| Illinois polotician who helped smooth over sectional conflict in 1850 but then reignited it in 1854 | ||
| cure-all | ||
| to declare evil or detestable |
