Ch.13 Expansion, War and Sectional Crisis

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  1. 4. _____ Liberty laws were passed by northern states that guaranteed all the residents the right to a trial by jury.
  2. 8. _____ Act divided Indian territory into Kansas and Nebraska in 1854.
  3. 10. The _____ Niners were the people that went to California in search of gold.
  4. 11. The _____ Purchase when the US bought from Mexico what is now Southern Arizona and New Mexico.
  5. 13. _____ Manifesto was when President Pierce tried to seize slave owning Cuba in 1854
  6. 14. The _____ Doctrine said a territories residents could exclude slavery but not make laws to protect it.
  7. 15. _____ Kansas was a bloody struggle between pro and anti slavery fractions in Kansas.
Down
  1. 1. _____ Whigs viewed the Mexican War as a conspiracy to add new slave states in the West
  2. 2. elite Mexican ranchers
  3. 3. _____ movement viewed slavery as a threat to republicanism and that it took away jobs from whites.
  4. 5. The _____ Proviso was intended to prohibit slavery in any new territories gained from Mexico, but the Senate did not approve.
  5. 6. The _____ Party tried to keep power out of the hands of immigrants and nativists.
  6. 7. _____ Destiny was fated by God to settle North America from the Atlantic to Pacific.
  7. 9. _____ sovereignty allowed each territory decide its status as a free or slave state.
  8. 12. _____ Scott v Sanford ruled the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, denied the federal government to exclude territory and declared African Americans were not citizens.