US Fall Mid-Term 2

this movement divided the United states because it called for the immediate end to slavery

In 1849, over 80,000 "Forty-Niners" were trying to find gold in

well-organized network of abolitionists who helped slaves escape slavery by going north

organized a raid on Harper's Ferry in order to incite a slave insurrection

this wealthy plantation owner from the South became president of the Confederacy

California becoming a state led to the Compromise of 1850 because of the problem that it would

practice of appointing people to government jobs based on party loyalty and support in election

the U.S. bought this territory from France in 1803

In 1845, President Polk & congress invited this republic into the Union through annexation.

most well-known "conductor" on the Underground Railroad

belief behind the Mexican-American War, that the U.S. was meant to spread west to the Pacific

For Northerners and abolitionists, the worst part of the Compromise of 1850 was the

a preference for native "U.S." born and a desire to limit immigration is known as

The Missouri Compromise admitted to the Union the slave state of Missouri and the free state of

Law signed by Andrew Jackson allowing for removal of Native Americans to west of Mississippi.

the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution are known as

Mexico ceded (gave up) half of its territory to the U.S. in the

this declared freedom for all enslaved people in the states still at war with the Union