Chapters 17-19

Question 1

Tariff of 1842

Answer 1

Signed by Pres. Tyler under peer pressure

Question 2

Caroline

Answer 2

American steamer carrying weapons to Canadian rebels sunk in New York by Brits

Question 3

Creole

Answer 3

Britain offers asylum to escaped slaves on the ship the Creole

Question 4

Aroostook War

Answer 4

lumber jack war at the Maine/Canada border

Question 5

Manifest Destiny

Answer 5

Ideology to expand west

Question 6

Fifty-four forty or fight

Answer 6

Americans want all of Oregon, or a fight

Question 7

Liberty party

Answer 7

small anti-slavery party in New York

Question 8

Walker Tariff

Answer 8

reduced the tariff from 32% to 25%, Pres Polk

Question 9

spot resolutions

Answer 9

Lincoln’s case for saying the disputed zone in Texas was, “spotty”

Question 10

California Bear Flag Republic

Answer 10

John C. Fremont’s small rebellion to overthrow beaners

Question 11

Buena Vista

Answer 11

Zachary Taylor’s spot

Question 12

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Answer 12

treaty that gave America Texas and California

Question 13

“Conscience Whigs”

Answer 13

antislavery whigs who also opposed Mexican war

Question 14

Wilmot Proviso

Answer 14

states that slavery should not be extended to any territories ceeded from Mexico

Question 15

John Tyler

Answer 15

President that replaced William Henry Harrison

Question 16

James K Polk

Answer 16

Democratic nominee, 4 point plan

Question 17

Stephen W. Kearny

Answer 17

helped with the conquest of California

Question 18

John C. Fremont

Answer 18

Helped to conquer fort in California, later republican candidate

Question 19

Winfield Scott

Answer 19

general and Whig Candidate for 1852

Question 20

David Wilmot

Answer 20

tried to pass Wilmot Proviso

Question 21

popular sovereignty

Answer 21

made by Lewis Cass, allows states to choose for themselves

Question 22

Free Soil party

Answer 22

anti slavery, federal aid for internal improvements and homesteads

Question 23

California gold rush

Answer 23

tens of thousands of people rush to California for the prospect of gold

Question 24

Underground Railroad

Answer 24

system of houses that allowed slaves to escape

Question 25

Seventh of March Speech

Answer 25

Speech by Webster urging compromise and union

Question 26

Compromise of 1850

Answer 26

made by Clay, made temporary compromise

Question 27

Fugitive Slave law

Answer 27

slaves cannot testify, no right to trial

Question 28

Clayton-Bulwer Treaty

Answer 28

states that America and Britain had no right to a water way

Question 29

Ostend Manifresto

Answer 29

USA tells Spain to sell Cuba, or to have it take from them

Question 30

Opium War

Answer 30

Britain's war to gain trading rights to China

Question 31

Treaty of Wanghia

Answer 31

Cushing uses charm to gain trading rights to China

Question 32

Treaty of Kanagawa

Answer 32

established relations with Japan

Question 33

Gadsden Purchase

Answer 33

Mexico seceedes a small part of land so America can builld rails

Question 34

Lewis Cass

Answer 34

created idea of popular sovereignty

Question 35

Zachary Taylor

Answer 35

Mexican War general, and future Pres

Question 36

Harriet Tubman

Answer 36

lead slaves to freedom

Question 37

Millard Filmore

Answer 37

breifly the president after Zachary Taylor's death

Question 38

Caleb Cushing

Answer 38

Chinese diplomat, charming

Question 39

matthew c. perry

Answer 39

japanese diplomat, flashy

Question 40

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Answer 40

Beecher Stowe write of the horrors of slavery

Question 41

The Impending Crisis of the South

Answer 41

talks of how it's in the best financial interest of non-slace holders to become abolitionists

Question 42

New England Emigrant Aid Company

Answer 42

Kansas pioneers financed by abolitionists

Question 43

Lecompton Constitution

Answer 43

kansas constitution forced that favored slavery

Question 44

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 44

Preston Brooks attacks Sumner

Question 45

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Answer 45

decrees that slaves are private property, and can therefor be taken from any territory. Also nullifies Compromise

Question 46

panic of 1857

Answer 46

Cali gold, russian grain, speculation of rails and land

Question 47

Tariff of 1857

Answer 47

reuduced tariffs 20% on dutiable goods

Question 48

Lincoln-Douglas debates

Answer 48

Honest Abe vs. Bullhorn Douglas for Illinois Senate

Question 49

Freeport Question

Answer 49

ask whether slavery is about Congress or the people

Question 50

Freeport Doctrine

Answer 50

argued people will get rid of slavery, if they don't want it

Question 51

Harpers Ferry

Answer 51

where John Brown seizes federal arsenal

Question 52

Constitutional Union Party

Answer 52

Union, consitution, law

Question 53

Confederate States of America

Answer 53

made in Montgomery, lead by Jefferson Davis

Question 54

Crittenden amendments

Answer 54

proposed compromise by John Crittenden, new lines for compromise

Question 55

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Answer 55

wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin

Question 56

James Buchanan

Answer 56

Democrat who tears party apart

Question 57

Charles Sumner

Answer 57

beaten by Preston S. Brooks

Question 58

Dred Scott

Answer 58

Black slave who sews

Question 59

Roger B. Taney

Answer 59

Chief justice who charges against Dred Scott

Question 60

Stephen A. Douglas

Answer 60

Lincoln's competition for the Illinois senate

Question 61

John C. Breckinridge

Answer 61

southern democrat's representative