Textbook pages 68-69; 76-77

Question 1

Battle of Buena Vista

Answer 1

February 23, 1847; this battle gave the U.S. control of Northern Mexico.

Question 2

April, 1846

Answer 2

President Polk asked Congress to declare war; Mexican War started

Question 3

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Answer 3

February 2nd, 1848; established Texas-Mexico border, and the U.S. gained New Mexico and California.

Question 4

When did the Gold Rush start?

Answer 4

January, 1848 when James W. Marshall found gold. Prospectors bombarded the place in 1849, creating a boom town.

Question 5

What was the fight in the 1850s?

Answer 5

Whether to let territories legalize slavery and for the whole nation to continue slavery.

Question 6

Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

Answer 6

Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852

Question 7

John Brown

Answer 7

1800-1859; led a small group of men in a raid on Harpers Ferry in WV for weapons. The group was stopped by Robert E. Lee.

Question 8

Fugitive slave laws, 1852

Answer 8

Jerry McHenry, an escaped slave, captured by U.S. Marshals and taken back to Virginia.

Question 9

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 9

1854; Senator Stephen A. Douglas suggested a bill that would let Kansas and Nebraska decided whether they wanted to have or not have slavery.

Question 10

“Bleeding Kansas”

Answer 10

When pro-slavery went to the territories to tip the ballot after the Kansas-Nebraska Act; free soilers went to Lawrence Kansas to make a government without slavery. A bloodshed happened.

Question 11

Dred Scott Case

Answer 11

1857; Supreme Court ruled against a slave, Dred Scott, who had been brought to a free state to live. He sued his owners when he was not freed.

Question 12

1858

Answer 12

Lincoln-Douglass Debates; Lincoln for no expansion of slavery; Douglass for popular sovereignty.