Western Expansion/Sectionalism Vocabulary Test
1.
Americans of the mid-19th Century used this as motivation for western expansion such as
the annexation of Texas, the annexation of the Oregon Territory and war with Mexico to annex
the southwest and California.
2.
A former state of Mexico, many Americans migrated to the territory following
Steven F. Austin, which led to the state declaring independence. It later would be annexed by the
United States.
3.
An American president during the 1840s that led the way in expanding American
territory in the west. He won a war with Mexico and expanded American territory more than any
other president.
4.
This phrase referred to the boundary line Americans desired to control in the Pacific
Northwest. The U.S. and Great Britain had duel ownership of the Oregon territory but
Americans vastly outnumbered Britons. Americans were ready for a war with Britain if they did
not hand over the territory.
5.
A war in the mid-19th century between the U.S. and Mexico. The U.S. wanted California
and was willing to fight to gain access to it.
6.
The bill failed to pass the Senate twice due to the South having stronger control over the
Senate. The slavery issue in the Mexican Cession was not resolved until the Compromise of
1850. This is viewed as a contributing factor to the Civil War.
7.
The addition of this territory reignited the slavery debate which would lead to the
Compromise of 1850 and popular sovereignty.
8.
The U.S. purchased this land from Mexico in 1854 to round out present day southern
Arizona and New Mexico.
9.
A movement against slavery that gained popularity in America during the 2nd Great
Awakening. Some like William Lloyd Garrison were radical and pushed for immediate abolition
while others like Theodore Dwight Weld advocated a more moderate form.
10.
While advocates for it felt it was a just option, many free blacks in the North felt insulted
by this society’s plan. Free Blacks in the North believed they had just as much right to being
American as whites. The society was not successful in sending many blacks to Liberia.
11.
a radical abolitionist and newspaper publicist from Maryland that published a paper
called The Liberator. He believed slavery to be an abomination and a sin. He even went as far as
to claim the Constitution was a deal with the devil due to the 3/5 Compromise.
12.
A former slave and abolitionist that wrote a best-selling memoir of his time as a slave. He
used tactics such as appealing to people’s integrity and religious beliefs.
13.
This book sparked a firestorm of protest by pro-slavery advocates and praise by
abolitionists.
14.
This is the pro-slavery view that used biblical, pseudo-scientific, historical and racist
views to justify the value of slavery in America.
15.
It was passed to stifle the growing abolition movement in America. Southern and proslavery advocates felt the abolitionists were out to destroy their way of life and must be silenced.
16.
While it solved the western slavery crisis for a time, it merely kicked the question down
the road. It would later be voided by popular sovereignty passed as part of the Compromise of
1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
17.
Following California’s petition for statehood Congress passed this compromise to
appease both Pro and anti-slavery advocates. The law established California as a free state,
allowed New Mexico the right of popular sovereignty to decide the issue of slavery, banned the
slave trade in Washington D.C. and Created harsher fugitive slave laws.
18.
Harsher terms were placed on fugitive slaves and those accused of assisting runaways. It
was part of the Compromise of 1850 and was passed in part to offset the entrance of California
as a free state.
19.
This policy voided the earlier verdict of the Missouri Compromise which stated that no
territory north of the 36-30 line would allow slavery and that all territory south of thee line
would be a slave territory. A territory could now vote on whether to have slavery or not.
20.
Created by Senators Stephen A. Douglas and Andrew Butler it called for the division of
the Kansas-Nebraska Territory, and the right of people in the territory to choose popular
sovereignty to decide whether to become a free state or a slave state.
21.
A border war fought between free soilers “Jayhawks” and pro-slavery “Border Ruffians”
over making Kansas a free or slave state. Following the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the call for
popular sovereignty many people on both sides of the issue flocked to the territory to decide the
fate of the new state.
22.
A political movement that took shape following the Mexican War. Followers were only
interested in keeping the new territory of the west free from slavery..
23.
A radical abolitionist that believed slavery could only be overthrown by violence. he was
implemented in the murder of five pro-slavery settlers in Kansas Pottawatomie Creek. He also
led an unsuccessful raid on Harper’s Ferry federal armory in Virginia in an attempt to free slaves
in the south.
24.
While the verdict was supposed to finally answer the slave question, it became a catalyst
for the Civil War. Many northerners and abolitionists viewed this decision as a violation of
states’ rights and proved their fears of a slave power conspiracy to control the United States.
25.
The rise to power of this party demonstrated growing fears of foreigners in America and
also the growing divide between pro and anti-slavery political factions. The parties collapse gave
rise to the Republican Party..
26.
The establishment of this party led to an ideological split in American between pro and
anti-slavery factions that would ultimately lead to the Civil War.
27.
While Lincoln lost the bid for the Senate, it propelled him into the national spotlight for
the Republican candidate for President in 1860. The debates also
became the format for later political debates until the modern day.
28.
Given by Stephen A. Douglas during the Lincoln-Douglas Debates in Which Lincoln
pressed Douglas to take a side in the argument between popular sovereignty and the verdict of
the Dred Scott case. Douglas chose to favor popular sovereignty, which pleased the Electors of
Illinois to re-elect Douglas to the Senate in 1858.
29.
A Senator from Massachusetts and leader of the anti-slavery wing of the Republican
Party. He denounced the Kansas-Nebraska Act as a crime Against Kansas and vowed to uncover
and denounce the slave power in America. Sumner attacked the authors of the Act, Stephen A.
Douglas and Andrew Butler verbally for their part in writing the Act.
30.
Southern Democrats vowed that if Abraham Lincoln won the election they would secede
from the Union. The Democrats were split between North and South due to the slavery issue
making a Republican victory easier.
Answer Box
a) Abolition Movement
b) Election of 1860
e) Kansas-Nebraska Act
f) Frederick Douglas
h) Gag Rule
i) Manifest Destiny
l) Freeport Doctrine
c) Charles Sumner
g) Republican Party
j) Dred Scott v. Sandford
m) Bleeding Kansas
d) Texas
k) Free Soilers
n) American Colonization Society
o) Lincoln-Douglas Debates
p) Popular Sovereignty
r) Know Nothing/American Party
u) Mexican Cession
x) John Brown
q) Wilmot Proviso
s) Gadsden Purchase
v) Apologist View of Slavery
y) Fugitive Slave Act
t) Uncle Tom’s Cabin
w) 54-40” or Fight!
z) William Lloyd Garrison
aa) compromise of 1850
bb) James K. Polk
dd) Gadsden Purchase
ee) Mexican War
cc) Missouri Compromise