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

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  1. 4. was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution. Following a 13-day siege.
  2. 5. The 1845 annexation of the Republic of Texas into the United States of America.
  3. 6. officially titled the Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits and Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic.
  4. 7. was an 1859 effort by abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in Southern states.
  5. 11. This agreement set the boundary between the United States and Canada at the 49th parallel west of the Rocky Mountains.
  6. 13. Is the principle that the authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people.
  7. 15. Was the popular slogan that led Polk to victory against all odds.
  8. 16. ran for president as part of the Southern faction of the Democratic Party.
  9. 17. Operate under a senior pastor-led system of church government, sometimes referred to as the.
  10. 23. 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.
  11. 24. Was a legislation that provided for the admission of Maine to the United States as a free state.
  12. 28. U.S. state in which the practice of slavery was legal at a particular point in time.
  13. 31. 1850 Was a package otreatf five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 that defused a political confrontation between slave and free states
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  1. 1. a year later with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed on February 2nd, 1848.
  2. 2. Was a widely held belief in the 19th-century United States that its settlers were destined to expand across North America.
  3. 3. was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 4, 1805.
  4. 8. was an American attorney and statesman who represented Kentucky in both the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives.
  5. 9. one of the principal rivers in the southwest United States and northern Mexico.
  6. 10. Was an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848.
  7. 12. was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court held that the Constitution of the United States.
  8. 14. Act Was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854.
  9. 18. Was the 12th president of the United States, serving from March 1849 until his death in July 1850.
  10. 19. An organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from August 14, 1848.
  11. 20. was an unsuccessful 1846 proposal in the United States Congress to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico.
  12. 21. As Missouri prepared to enter the______as a Slave State.
  13. 22. Was the 11th president of the United States, serving from 1845 to 1849.
  14. 25. Was the 19th quadrennial presidential election which was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860.
  15. 26. was a U.S. state in which the practice of slavery was legal at a particular point in time.
  16. 27. Is loyalty to one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole.
  17. 29. Is the administrative action and concept in international law relating to the forcible acquisition of one state's territory by another state.
  18. 30. a state of the US in which slavery was illegal.