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3. Party tried to keep power out of the hands of immigrants and nativists.
4. Whigs viewed the Mexican War as a conspiracy to add new slave states in the West
6. Purchase US bought from Mexico what is now Southern Arizona and New Mexico.
7. Scott v Sandford ruled the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional,denied the federal gov. to exclude territory and declared African Americans were not citizens.
9. Manifesto to seize slave owning Cuba in 1854
11. destiny fated by God to settle North America from the Atlantic to pacific.
13. elite Mexican ranchers
14. Kansas was a bloody struggle between pro and anti slavery fractions in Kansas.

1. sovereignty allowed each territory decided its status as a free or slave state.
2. proviso was intended to prohibit slavery in any new territories gained from Mexico, but the Senate did not approve.
3. act divided Indian territory into Kansas and Nebraska in 1854.
5. Doctrine said a territories residents could exclude slavery but not make laws to protect it.
8. niners the people the went to california in search of gold.
10. movement viewed slavery as a threat to republicanism and that it took away jobs from whites.
12. Liberty laws were passed by northern states that guaranteed all the residents the right to a trial by jury.