Unit #5- Manifest Destiny, pre-causes of the Civil War

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  1. 3. State in which slavery was legal.
  2. 9. Limits and Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic, is the peace treaty signed on February 2, 1848, in the Villa de Guadalupe Hidalgo.
  3. 11. Were forces that fought principally on horseback, armed with carbines, pistols, and sabers. Only a small percentage of Civil War forces met this definition—primarily Union mounted forces in the Eastern Theater during the first half of the war.
  4. 14. Is a treaty between Great Britain and the United States that was signed on June 15, 1846, in Washington, D.C.
  5. 15. An organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from August 14, 1848, until February 14, 1859, when the southwestern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Oregon.
  6. 16. Was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
  7. 20. Was a U.S. state in which the practice of slavery was legal at a particular point in time and the other was one in which slavery was prohibited.
  8. 21. Waged between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848, helped to fulfill America's "manifest destiny" to expand its territory across the entire North American continent.
  9. 23. Is the administrative action and concept in international law relating to the forcible acquisition of one state's territory by another state and is generally held to be an illegal act.
  10. 24. A river in North America, rising in SW Colorado and flowing southeast to the Gulf of Mexico, forming the border between the US and Mexico.
  11. 25. Is loyalty to one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole.
  12. 28. A year later with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed on February 2nd, 1848. ... The frenzy of the California Gold Rush drew in hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world and propelled California into becoming a state in 1850.
  13. 30. Polk called for expansion that included Texas, California, and the entire Oregon territory. The northern boundary of Oregon was the latitude line of 54 degrees, 40 minutes.
  14. 31. Compromise was the legislation that provided for the admission of Maine to the United States as a free state along with Missouri as a slave state.
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  1. 1. Was an unsuccessful 1846 proposal in the United States Congress to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican–American War.
  2. 2. Was the 1845 annexation of the Republic of Texas into the United States of America, which was admitted to the Union as the 28th state on December 29, 1845.
  3. 4. Was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court held that the Constitution of the United States was not meant to include American citizenship.
  4. 5. Was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 that defused a political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican–American War.
  5. 6. Was the 11th president of the United States, serving from 1845 to 1849.
  6. 7. Was a politician who served as the 14th vice president of the United States and as a Confederate general during the Civil War
  7. 8. Was the 12th president of the United States, serving from March 1849 until his death in July 1850.
  8. 10. Played a major role in formulating the three landmark sectional compromises of his day: the Missouri Compromise of 1820, the Tariff Compromise of 1833, and the Compromise of 1850.
  9. 12. A state of the US in which slavery was illegal.
  10. 13. Was an 1859 effort by abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in Southern states by taking over a United States arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
  11. 17. Is the principle that the authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives, who are the source of all political power.
  12. 18. Was a series of violent civil confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 which emerged from a political and ideological conflict over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas.
  13. 19. Was a widely held belief in the 19th-century United States that its settlers were destined to expand across North America.
  14. 22. Was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution. Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna reclaimed the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Béxar, killing the Texian and immigrant occupiers.
  15. 26. Was the portion of the country that remained loyal to the Federal government during the Civil War.
  16. 27. Was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 4, 1805, until June 4, 1812, when it was renamed the Missouri Territory.
  17. 29. Was the 19th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860. In a four-way contest, the Republican Party ticket of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin emerged triumphant.