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Stufflet APUSH U5P1
Unit 5--Part 1-- APUSH
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| the idea that the people who settled a territory should decide the issue of slavery for that territory by voting | Popular Sovereignty |
| 1st proposed by Henry Clay; meant to resolve the dispute over the admission of California as a free state | Compromise of 1850 |
| as part of the Compromise of 1850, it said the federal government would be responsible for hunting down runaway slaves; captured persons were denied trial by jury | Fugitive Slave Law |
| proposed by Stephen Douglas (railroad), it divided Nebraska territory into Kansas and Nebraska and allowed popular sovereignty in each place; this effectively nullified the Missouri Compromise line and upset anti-slavery northerners | Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| system developed by some abolitionists to aid runaway slaves on their journeys north (usually to Canada) | Underground Railroad |
| escaped slave who helped run Underground Railroad | Harriet Tubman |
| court case in which slaves were deemed property and declared Missouri Compromise line unconstitutional | Dred Scott v Sandford |
| term that referred to violence between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces in Kansas | Bleeding Kansas |
| comprised of those who wanted no expansion of slavery into western territories because slaves took jobs from wage earners | Free Soil movement |
| northern nativists who hated Irish Catholic and German Catholic immigrants | Know Nothings |
| political party that formed as direct result of Kansas-Nebraska Act; platform was to prevent slavery's expansion | Republican Party |
| idea promoted by early Republican Party that said slavery was economically inefficient | free labor ideology |
| court case in which Chinese were declared inferior and unable to testify against whites | People vs Hall |
| hatred of immigrants | nativism |
| term that implied it was America’s “obvious” destiny to take over the entire continent to the Pacific | Manifest Destiny |
| ended Mexican-American War; Mexico recognized Rio Grande as Texas border, US received Mexican Cession, US paid Mexico $15 million | Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo |
| said slavery should be forbidden in new territories acquired from Mexico in war | Wilmot Proviso |
| took place in the 1840s as migrants rushed for land in the Pacific Northwest | Oregon fever |
| gave migrants 160 acres of free land if they farmed it for 5 years | Homestead Act |
| led the Mormons to Salt Lake City in Utah territory | Brigham Young |
| provoked war with Mexico in order to take Mexican Cession | James Polk |
| forced the Japanese to open trade with the USA through intimidation | Matthew Perry |
| using the navy to intimidate a foreign power into doing something (trade) | gunboat diplomacy |
| official treaty that opened American trade with Japan | Treaty of Kanagawa |
| western territory taken in the 1846 war | Mexican cession |
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