Manifest Destiny and the Road to Civil War

Question 1

Kansas-Nebraska Act
Author
Purpose
Results

Answer 1

Stephen Douglas;
Settlers can decide whether to allow slavery;
Bleeding Kansas
Rise of Republican Party

Question 2

Election of 1860

Answer 2

Abraham Lincoln(R)
Stephen Douglas and John C Breckenridge (D)
John Bell (CU);
November election, December South Carolina secedes;
7 states secede(SC,GA,FL,AL,Mississippi,Louisiana,Texas)

Question 3

Mexican Cession

Answer 3

Region Mexico Seceded to the US

Guadalupe Hidalgo

Question 4

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Answer 4

Stereo typed all southerners as cruel slave holders

Written by Harriet Beecher Stowk

Question 5

The Impending Crisis of the South

Answer 5

Addressed the scam of slavery, lowered salary of southerners

Written by Hinton Helper

Question 6

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 6

Civil war in Kansas

John Brown believed he was put on earth to end slavery violently

Question 7

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Answer 7

Traveled Illinois debating with eachother

Freeport Doctrine

Question 8

Compromise of 1850

Answer 8

Last attempt by Clay to save the union
California enters as free state
Upsets balance of states
Texas gets 10 million for losing territory
Slave trade banned in Washington DC
Fugitive Slave Law
Utah and New Mexico open to popular sovereignty

Question 9

Dread Scott Decision

Answer 9

Slavery couldn’t be outlawed anywhere

Question 10

Webster-Hayne Debates

Answer 10

Webster predicated nullification would lead to succession and disunion

Question 11

John Brown’s Raid

Answer 11

Stereotyped northerners as abolitionists

Question 12

Roger B. Taney

Answer 12

Judge during Dred Scott case
Any law that outlaws slavery is against the 5th amendment and unconstitutional;
A black man has no rights a white man would have to respect

Question 13

John C. Calhoun

Answer 13

South Carolina Exposition and Protest

Question 14

John C. Fremont

Answer 14

Califnornia

Bear Flag Republic

Question 15

Stephen Douglas

Answer 15

Made popular sovereignty

Question 16

David Wilmot

Answer 16

Wrote Wilmot Proviso

Question 17

Harriet Beecher

Answer 17

Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Question 18

William Lloyd Garrison

Answer 18

Wrote the Liberator

Question 19

Elijah P. Lovejoy

Answer 19

Important Abolitionist

Shot defending printing press

Question 20

Popular Sovereignty

Answer 20

Last say belongs to the people
Power of the state’s citizens to decide avout slavery
Stephen Douglas

Question 21

Missouri Compromise

Answer 21

Missouri as a slave state
Main comes in as a free state
Slavery forbidden north of 36 30’

Question 22

3/5 Compromise

Answer 22

Wrote slavery into the constitution
Padded southern voice in the federal government
Jefferson could not have been elected

Question 23

Ostend Manifesto

Answer 23

US proposes to take Cuba to balance California

Question 24

Winfield Scott

Answer 24

Hero of the Mexican War

Question 25

Sam Houston

Answer 25

Hero of Horseshoe Bend | Opposed Mexican War

Question 26

Harriet Tubman

Answer 26

Underground Railroad

Question 27

James K. Polk

Answer 27

Election of 1844

Question 28

Spot Resolution

Answer 28

Mexican War | Show were the blood was spilled

Question 29

Henry David Thoreau

Answer 29

Civil Disobedience

Question 30

54 40' or Fight!

Answer 30

James K Polk

Question 31

36 30'

Answer 31

Conspiracy to add a territory south of 36 30'

Question 32

Webster-Ashburton treaty of 1842

Answer 32

Mesabi Iron ore range

Question 33

Gadsden Purchase

Answer 33

Puchase top bit of Mexico for 10 million | America has a conscience

Question 34

Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

Answer 34

Ended the Mexican War | Explosion of Sectionalism

Question 35

Zachary Taylor

Answer 35

A hero of the Mexican War | Won election of 1848 over Louis Cass

Question 36

49 North

Answer 36

James K Polk settled for border

Question 37

Willamette Valley

Answer 37

Oregon Trail 20 thousand Ameicans settle Boundary needs to be established

Question 38

Fugitive Slave Law

Answer 38

Federal crime to assist a runaway ($1000) | Requirement to return slaves to the South

Question 39

Lone Star Republic

Answer 39

Texas

Question 40

Bear Flag Republic

Answer 40

California

Question 41

Seneca Falls

Answer 41

Equal work and the right to vote for women

Question 42

Election of 1844/Liberty Party

Answer 42

James K. Polk Buy California Annex Texas 54 40' or Fight

Question 43

7th of March Speech

Answer 43

Daniel Webster | Compromise if better than disunion

Question 44

Mesabi Iron Ore Range

Answer 44

Minnesota iron ore deposit

Question 45

Free Port Doctrine

Answer 45

Asked how popular sovereignty acted on Dred Scott Case | "People cannot outlaw slavery,they can refuse to practice it" - Douglas

Question 46

California Gold Rush

Answer 46

Urgent Statehood | Compromise of 1850

Question 47

Effect of slavery on pre-civil war religion

Answer 47

Split religions

Question 48

Garrison's stance on slavery

Answer 48

Implicit uncompensated emancipation of slaves

Question 49

Rise of the Republican party

Answer 49

Kansas Nebraska Act

Question 50

Influence of Clay on Lincoln

Answer 50

Clay opposed abolitionist and slaveholders because of their eagerness to divide the union and their denial of the meaning of the declaration

Question 51

Influence of Webster on Lincoln

Answer 51

Provided Lincoln with arguments and reasoning on the concept of union The Constitution is an attempt to embody the ideals of the declaration of independence Believed to be the best speech

Question 52

Henry clay

Answer 52

Great compromiser

Question 53

The Alamo

Answer 53

Battle cry for Texas war for independence

Question 54

Transcontinental railroad

Answer 54

Kansas Nebraska act

Question 55

Convention of 1846

Answer 55

49 N

Question 56

Rio grande

Answer 56

Disputed territory

Question 57

Republican platform

Answer 57

Opposed westward expansion of slavery

Question 58

Compact theory

Answer 58

South seceded because they believed they had the right to

Question 59

Wilmot proviso

Answer 59

Proposal to ban slavery in Mexican territories

Question 60

Frederick Douglas

Answer 60

Leading black abolitionist

Question 61

Frederick Douglas on Lincoln

Answer 61

Union first | Slavery second

Question 62

Why did the south secede

Answer 62

``` No voice in the house Hate each other Different cultures More money Since they created the union they can uncreated it ```

Question 63

Nat turner

Answer 63

Fear in the south