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| Who won the Election of 1840? | William Henry Harrison w/his "Log Cabin" campaign |
| What was the idea that it was the mission of the US to spread westward? | Manifest Destiny |
| What newspaperman wrote that it would be the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent? | John O'Sullivan |
| The overland path that took settlers to the Oregan territory? | Oregon Trail |
| What was the rallying cry for those who wanted Oregon to be under American control? | Fifty-four Forty or Fight |
| What gave most of Oregon to the Americans? | Oregon Treaty of 1846 |
| What was the rallying cry of those fighting for Texas independence? | "Remeber the Alamo!" |
| The Republic of Texas was called the.... | Lone Star Republic |
| Who was the first Dark Horse candidate for President in 1844? | James K. Polk |
| During the 1844 election, the most imp. issues were: | Manifest Destiny & Abolitionism |
| When California got their independence from Mexico, they were called the: | Bear Flag Republic |
| What was the name of the treaty that ended the Mexican-American War? | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
| An 1846 ruling that stated slavery couldn't exist in any territory the US acquired from Mexico? | Wilmot Proviso |
| After the 1858 election, members from the Whig & Democratic parties formed this, whose main purpose was the oppose slavery in the newly acquired western territories? | Free-Soil Party |
| Around 1848-49, thousands went to California to look for gold. These were the: | Fourty-Niners |
| What were the stipulations of the Compromise of 1850? | CA was a free state, NM & UT used popular sovereignty, & the Fugitive Slave Act was passed in the South |
| Who won the Election of 1848? | Franklin Pierce, another Dark Horse candidate |
| Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin? | Harriet Beecher Stowe....one of the major causes of the Civil War |
| Pierce's foreign policy was pro-expansionism. For example, he.... | sent Commodore Perry to Japan to open trade |
| Pierce was also instrumental in the act with Mexico that gave us land for a southern transcontinental railroad.... | Gadsden Purchase |
| Another political party that grew during the mid-1800s was the..... | Know-Nothing Party, which focused on anti-immigrant campaigns |
| The dislike of foreigners that grew in response to the many immigrants in the mid-1800s? | Nativism |
| Who was the biggest supporter of Popular Sovereignty? | Stephen Douglas |
| What caused the formation of the Republican Party? | passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act (popular sovereignty) |
| Where did pro- & antislavery factions meet and fight? | Bleeding Kansas |
| Who went to the Nebraska Territory to flight slavery? | John Brown |
| What Supreme Crt. ruling said that being in free territory didn't make a slave free? | Dred Scott v. Sanford |
| Stephen Douglas & Abe Lincoln debated the slavery issue on 7 different occasions....These were the: | Lincoln-Douglass Debates |
| Douglas wanted to support Popular Sovereignty in the West. This became the..... | Freeport Doctrine |
| John Brown & his sons tried to take the aresonal at: | Harper's Ferry, VA |
| What state was the 1st to seceed? | SC on Dec. 20., 1860 |
| When the Southern States seceeded they created the: | Confederate States of America |
| Who was president of the Conf. States of Amer.? | Jefferson Davis. |
