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Expansion from CW
Expansion from CW to 20th century
Question | Answer |
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This event sparked massive immigration to California | Gold Rush |
Added to the western section of the country in southern Arizona and New Mexico | Gadsden Purchase |
Allowed California to come in as a free state, outlawed slavery in DC, passed a new Fugitive Slave Law, established popular sovereignty in New Mexico and Utah territories, adjusted the Texas boundaries | Compromise of 1850 |
Used the idea of popular sovereignty as a means of determining whether states from the Louisiana Purchase should be free or slav | Kansas Nebraska Act |
Established that Congress had no authority to restrict slavery in the territories | Dred Scott v. Sanford |
Written by the proslavery government in Kansas, accepted by Buchanan but opposed in Congress | Lecompton Constitution |
Gold rush in the area in 1858 sparks flood of miners moving to this area | Colorado |
Gave free land to settlers | Homestead Act |
Gave land to states to establish colleges devoted to agricultural research | Morrill Land Grant Act |
Linked the country; finished in 1869 | Transcontinental Railroad |
Blacks who emigrated from the South to Kansas after the Civil War | Exodusters |
Terminated the treaty process with Indians and said the federal could manage tribal affairs without tribal | Indian Appropriations Act |
Transported thousands out west; nicknamed prairie schooners | Conestoga Wagons |
This invention put an end to cattle drives | Barbed Wire |
Posited that the frontier had had a unique impact on the formation of the American character | Frederick Jackson Turner |
Said that we needed overseas possessions to maintain a strong navy which was essential to military strength | Alfred Thayer Mahan |
Resisted annexing Hawaii | Grover Cleveland |
Said that we had no interest in annexing Cuba | Teller Amendment |
Gave us the right to interfere in Cuban affairs to maintain order | Platt Amendment |