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| 5468323673 | Abraham Lincoln | Republican president elected in 1860, prompting the secession of South Carolina |  | 0 |
| 5468332688 | Stephen A. Douglas | Senator who designed the Kansas-Nebraska Act |  | 1 |
| 5468336345 | Compromise of 1850 | 5 bills passed by the US Congress, including: 1. California admitted as a free state 2. No slave restrictions in Utah or New Mexico 3. Compensation to Texas for New Mexico lands 4. Slavery allowed in nation's capitol but slave trade abolished 5. Fugitive Slave Law passed in the whole country |  | 2 |
| 5468356626 | James K. Polk | Democrat president who was president during the Mexican-American War |  | 3 |
| 5468368672 | Dred Scott Decision | Supreme Court decision that slaves born in the South who then moved to the North (where slavery was abolished) were not free persons |  | 4 |
| 5468374988 | John Brown/Harper's Ferry | This white abolitionist led a raid on a military arsenal in an effort to inspire a mass slave uprising (which never happened) |  | 5 |
| 5468384714 | Election of 1860 | Highly contested election resulted in Abraham Lincoln becoming president |  | 6 |
| 5468387965 | Texas Annexation | Texas was admitted to the Union in 1845 |  | 7 |
| 5468394132 | Kansas-Nebraska Act | Passed by Congress in 1854, this allowed for popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska to decide the issue of slavery |  | 8 |
| 5468400825 | Gold Rush | Mass migration of mostly single men to the west coast in an effort to find gold |  | 9 |
| 5468403458 | Manifest Destiny | The belief that the US' fate is to take over the entire North American continent |  | 10 |
| 5468408856 | Transcontinental Railroad | Massive engineering feat in which a continuous railroad line extended from the west coast to the east coast |  | 11 |
| 5468417553 | Free-Soil Party | Political party that ran on the sole platform of preventing slavery from being allowed in new territories (but not abolishing it in the territories where it already existed) |  | 12 |
| 5468429856 | Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo | Ended the Mexican-American war, and gave valuable territory to the United States from Mexico. (Think Jimmy Fallon) |  | 13 |
| 5468446424 | Wilmot Proviso | A failed proposal to prohibit slavery from territory received as a result of the Mexican-American War |  | 14 |
| 5468458203 | Gadsden Purchase | Land purchased in 1853, including southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico |  | 15 |
| 5468465595 | Oregon Trail | Popular video game in the 1990s. More importantly, was a popular trail for settlers to take from Independence, Missouri, to the Pacific Northwest |  | 16 |
| 5468478779 | Popular Sovereignty | When the general public opinion is able to establish their own laws |  | 17 |
| 5468480806 | Zachary Taylor | Whig president following Polk, he was elected because of his success in the Mexican-American Party |  | 18 |
