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AH Unit 6 Key Terms

TermDefinition
Manifest Destiny Manifest Destiny was the popular 1800s God-given belief that the United States was meant to grow and stretch all the way from the Atlantic Ocean (East Coast) to the Pacific Ocean (West Coast).
Oregon Trail One of the routes that "overlanders" used to move to the West
James K. Polk Known as the "expansion president," he was president when the United States gained the Oregon Territory and fought the Mexican-American War
"Fifty-four Forty or Fight" Slogan of people who felt the United States should fight England for all of the Oregon Territory rather than share it
Mexican-American War Conflict between the United States and Mexico caused by the United States' desires for Texas and California and started by a border dispute in Texas
Wilmot Proviso Suggested law (that did not pass) that called for all land won from Mexico to be free from slavery
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo This ended the Mexican-American War and resulted in the Mexican Cession, which gave the United States what is now the American southwestern states
Popular sovereignty The idea that states should decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery
Free-Soil Party Formed with the platform that slavery should not expand west and preserve the West for white people
California Gold Rush Event that caused the population of California to increase dramatically and ask to be admitted as a free state
Compromise of 1850 Created by Henry Clay, this deal included California being admitted as a free state and the Fugitive Slave Act being passed
Fugitive Slave Act This law forced northerners to aid in slave-catching and divided the country
Uncle Tom's Cabin Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, this caused many northerners to hate slavery
Gadsden Purchase This strip of land was bought from Mexico for the construction of a transcontinental railroad
Kansas-Nebraska Act This law proposed using popular sovereignty to settle Midwestern states but resulted in violence
Republican Party Formed with the platform that slavery could not expand west, took power with the election of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln Won the Election of 1860 and led the country during the Civil War
Dred Scott v. Sandford This ruled the slaves were not citizens and that slavery could not be banned in any territory
Lincoln-Douglas Debates Series of talks between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas that made Lincoln a popular candidate for president two years later
Freeport Doctrine Idea that, even if slavery could not be banned, western territories did not have to pass laws to protect it
Harpers Ferry Site of John Brown's attempt to raid a federal arsenal and start an armed slave rebellion in the South
Election of 1860 This event caused southern states to secede from the United States
Jefferson Davis President of the Confederate States of America
Fort Sumter Site of the first shots fired by the South against the North, started the Civil War
Border States States that had slavery but remained part of the Union and were vital to Lincoln's ability to conduct the Civil War
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