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| 1992636070 | Aroostook War | Battle between Great Britan and America over the Maine territory. Settled by the Webstor-Ashborn treaty | 0 | |
| 1992636071 | "Fifty-four forty or fight!" | Slogan used in the 1844 presidential election as a call for us annexation of the oregon territory | 1 | |
| 1992636072 | Liberty Party | A former political party in the United States; formed in 1839 to oppose the practice of slavery; merged with the Free Soil Party in 1848 | 2 | |
| 1992636073 | spot resolutions | Congressman Abraham Lincoln (Spotty Lincoln) supported a proposition to find the exact spot where American troops were fired upon, suspecting that they had illegally crossed into Mexican territory. | 3 | |
| 1992636074 | Bear Flag Republic | nickname for California after it declared independence from Mexico in 1846 | 4 | |
| 1992636075 | Battle of Buena Vista | Zachery Taylor defeated the Mexicans when fighting for the Rio Grande River | 5 | |
| 1992636076 | Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo | Treaty (1848) in which Mexico gave up Texas above the Rio Grande and ceded New Mexico and California to the United States in return for $15 million. | 6 | |
| 1992636077 | Wilmont Proviso | An amendment to an 1846 military appropriations bill, proposing that none of the territory acquired in the war with Mexico would be open to slavery. | 7 | |
| 1992636078 | John Tyler | responsible for annexing Texas. 10th president | 8 | |
| 1992636079 | James Polk | advocated on the platform of Manifest Destiny | 9 | |
| 1992636080 | Stephen Kearny | American general in war with Mexico, he captured Santa Fe without firing a shot | 10 | |
| 1992636081 | John Fremont | First Republican political Candidate in the election of 1856; aka Pathfinder of the West | 11 | |
| 1992636082 | Winifield Scott | general who led a second force at Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico and captures Mexico City | 12 | |
| 1992636083 | Nicholas Trist | US Ambassador for the Treaty of Guadalupe of Hidalgo | 13 | |
| 1992636084 | joint resolution | A resolution requiring approval of both houses and the signature of the president and having the same legal status as a law | 14 | |
| 1992636085 | popular soveignty | people in the area vote for slavery or not | 15 | |
| 1992636086 | fire-eaters | group of radical pro-slavery advocates | 16 | |
| 1992636087 | Free Soil Party | A political party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery | 17 | |
| 1992636088 | Gold Rush | a period from1848 to 1856 when thousands of people came to California in order to search for gold. | 18 | |
| 1992636089 | Compromise of 1850 | (MF) by Daniel Webster, California wanted to join the Union, but if California was accepted the North would gain control of the Senate, and Southerners threatened to secede from the Union. This compromise set up California joining the Union as a free state, New Mexico and Utah use popular sovereignty to decide the question of slavery, slave trading is banned in the nation's capital, The Fugitive Slave Law is passed, and the border between Texas and New Mexico was set. | 19 | |
| 1992636090 | Fugitive Slave Law | 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. | 20 | |
| 1992636091 | Clayton Bulwer Treaty | between U.S. and Great Britain agreeing that neither country would try to obtain exclusive rights to canal across Isthmus of Panama; Abrogated by U.S. in 1881 | 21 | |
| 1992636092 | Ostend Manifesto | a declaration (1854) issued from Ostend, Belgium, by the U.S. ministers to England, France, and Spain, stating that the U.S. would be justified in seizing Cuba if Spain did not sell it to the U.S. | 22 | |
| 1992636093 | Opium War | 1839-1842. Chinese attempted to prohibit the opium trade, British declared war and won against Chinese. Treaty of Nanjing, agreed to open 5 ports to British trade and limit tariffs on British goods and gave Hong Kong. US wanted same trading rights | 23 | |
| 1992636094 | Gadsden Purchase | 1853 purchase by the United States of southwestern lands from Mexico for 10 million | 24 | |
| 1992636095 | Kansas-Nebraska Act | 1854 - Created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty. | 25 | |
| 1992636096 | Stephen Douglas | Senator from Illinois, author of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Freeport Doctrine, argues in favor of popular sovereignty | 26 | |
| 1992771072 | Republican Party | 1854 - anti-slavery Whigs and Democrats, Free Soilers and reformers from the Northwest met and formed party in order to keep slavery out of the territories | 27 | |
| 1992771073 | Lewis Cass | 1848 Democratic candidate known as the Father of Popular Sovereignty | 28 | |
| 1992771074 | Zachary Taylor | (1849-1850), Whig president who was a Southern slave holder, and war hero (Mexican-American War). Won the 1848 election. Surprisingly did not address the issue of slavery at all on his platform. He died during his term and his Vice President was Millard Fillmore. | 29 | |
| 1992771075 | Harriet Tubman | (c.1820-1913) American abolitionist who escaped slavery and assisted other enslaved Africans to escape; she is the most famous Underground Railroad conductor and is known as the Moses of her people. | 30 | |
| 1992771076 | Millard Fillmore | (1850-1853) The Fugitive Slave Act was passed in 1850. California becomes a free state, territories chose popular sovereignty, Uncle Tom's Cabin. He helped pass the Compromise of 1850 by gaining the support of Northern Whigs for the compromise. | 31 | |
| 1992771077 | Franklin Pierce | President elected in 1852; puppet of the Democrats; sought expansion in Nicaragua and Cuba; signed trade treaties with China (Wanghia) and Japan (Kanagawa) | 32 | |
| 1992771078 | Matthew Perry | A commodore in the American navy. He forced Japan into opening its doors to trade, thus brining western influence to Japan while showing American might. | 33 | |
| 1992771079 | Nicaragua | The alternative route to Panama seriously considered as the location for a canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans was | 34 | |
| 1992771080 | William Seward | Secretary of State who was responsible for purchasing Alaskan Territory from Russia. By purchasing Alaska, he expanded the territory of the country at a reasonable price. | 35 | |
| 1992771081 | Mason-Dixon Line | Boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that divided the Middle Colonies from the Southern Colonies | 36 | |
| 1992771082 | Uncle Tom's Cabin | 1852, harriet beecher stowe, antislavery book, widely read- hated by southerners - made northerners more skeptical of slavery | 37 | |
| 1992771083 | The Impending Crisis of the South | A book written by Hinton Helper. Helper hated both slavery and blacks and used this book to try to prove that non-slave owning whites were the ones who suffered the most from slavery. The non-aristocrat from N.C. had to go to the North to find a publisher that would publish his book. | 38 | |
| 1992771084 | New England Emigrant Aid Company | An anti-slavery organization that sent thousands of people to Kansas to forestall the South and make a profit. Southerners were angered based on the understanding of the Kansas-Nebraska Act that Kansas would be a slave state and Nebraska free, but virtually no slaves lived in either state. | 39 | |
| 1992771085 | Lecompton Constitution | supported the existence of slavery in the proposed state and protected rights of slaveholders. It was rejected by Kansas, making Kansas an eventual free state. | 40 | |
| 1992771086 | Bleeding Kansas | (1856) a series of violent fights between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces in Kansas who had moved to Kansas to try to influence the decision of whether or not Kansas would a slave state or a free state. | 41 | |
| 1992771087 | Dred Scott v. Sanford | Supreme Court case that decided US Congress did not have the power to prohibit slavery in federal territories and slaves, as private property, could not be taken away without due process - basically slaves would remain slaves in non-slave states and slaves could not sue because they were not citizens | 42 | |
| 1992771088 | Know-Nothing Party | A party which pushed for political action against these newcomers. They displayed the feelings of America regarding newcomers that were different and therefore, the double standard of the country. | 43 | |
| 1992771089 | Lincoln Douglas Debate | 1858 Senate Debate, Lincoln forced Douglas to debate issue of slavery, Douglas supported pop-sovereignty, Lincoln asserted that slavery should not spread to territories, Lincoln emerged as strong Republican candidate | 44 | |
| 1992771090 | Freeport Doctorine | statement made by Stephen Douglas duing the Lincon-Douglas debates that pointed out how people could use popular sovereignty to determine if their state or territory should permit slavery | 45 | |
| 1992771091 | Harpers' Ferry | John Brown's scheme to invade the South with armed slaves, backed by sponsoring, northern abolitionists; seized the federal arsenal; Brown and remnants were caught by Robert E. Lee and the US Marines; Brown was hanged | 46 | |
| 1992771092 | Constitutional Union Party | Also known as the "do-nothings" or "Old Gentlemen's" party; 1860 election; it was a middle of the road group that feared for the Union- consisted mostly of Whigs and Know-Nothings, met in Baltimore and nominated John Bell from Tennessee as candidate for presidency-the slogan for this candidate was "The Union, the Constitution, and the Enforcement of the laws." | 47 | |
| 1992771093 | Confederate States of America | a republic formed in February of 1861 and composed of the eleven Southern states that seceded from the United States | 48 | |
| 1992771094 | Crittenden Amendments | These amendements to the Constitution were designed to appease the south by prohibiting slavery north of 36, 30' but allowed protection south of this line. It also allowed future states to enter with or without slavery regardless of their position north or south. | 49 | |
| 1992771095 | Harriet Beecher Stowe | "Uncle Tom's Cabin" | 50 | |
| 1992771096 | James Buchanan | (1857-1861) The Confederate States of America are formed in 1861. He tried to maintain a balance between proslavery and antislavery factions, but his moderate views angered radicals in both North and South, and he was unable to forestall the secession of South Carolina on December 20, 1860. Lecompton Constitution supporter. | 51 | |
| 1992771097 | Charles Sumner | Abolitionist senator whose verbal attack on the South provoked a physical assault that severely injured him | 52 | |
| 1992771098 | Preston Brooks | A Southern Congressman who attacked Charles Sumner | 53 | |
| 1992771099 | Dred Scott | A black slave, had lived with his master for 5 years in Illinois and Wisconsin Territory. Backed by interested abolitionists, he sued for freedom on the basis of his long residence on free soil. The ruling on the case was that He was a black slave and not a citizen, so he had no rights. | 54 | |
| 1992771100 | Roger Taney | 5th Chief Justice 1835-1864 slavery, prohibiting free blacks in state, blacks can't be citizens, end to deposit of Federal money of 2nd bank of US (killed it) | 55 | |
| 1992771101 | Stephen Douglas | A moderate, who introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854 and popularized the idea of popular sovereignty. | 56 | |
| 1992771102 | Abraham Lincoln | 16th President of the United States saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865) | 57 | |
| 1992771103 | John Brown | (FP) , Well-known abolitionist. used violence to stop slavery immediately, involved in the Pottawatomie Massacre, he ws tried, convicted of treason and hung... he became a martyr. | 58 | |
| 1992771104 | John Brekenridge | southern democrat candidate who split the democratic party by his nomination | 59 | |
| 1992771105 | John Crittenden | A Senator from Kentucky who made a last effort to save the Union by introducing a bill to extend the Missouri Compromise line to the Pacific, and he proposed an amendment to the Constitution that would guarantee forever the right to hold slaves in states south of the compromise line. | 60 | |
| 1992771106 | Jefferson Davis | An American statesman and politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history from 1861 to 1865 | 61 |
