Ch 13 Study Guide
Ostend Manifesto
William Walker
1856 Pottawatomie Creek Massacre and raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry
Lincoln-Douglas debates
Lecompton Constitution
Dred Scott
Beginning of the Civil War
John Crittenden
South Carolina
Presidential Election of 1860
Why the split of the Democratic Party in 1860
1860 Republican Platform
Fugitive Slave Act 1850
Stephen Douglas, Kansas-Nebraska Act
Provisions of Compromise of 1850
Opponents of Compromise of 1850
Free Soil Party
Countries that went through some kind of popular upheaval in 1848
American naval officer who negotiated a treaty that opened 2 Japanese ports to US ships in 1854
Wilmot Proviso
Republican Party of 1850 policy regarding slavery also advocated by whom in 1846
Republican candidate in 1856
Republican free labor ideology
Caning of Charles Sumner by Preston Brooks
Know-Nothing triumphs 1854
Political impact of Kansas-Nebraska Act
Appeal of Know-Nothing Party
Leaders of the Democratic partyin the 1850s
Texas Constitution
California 1850
Reason Henry clay lost the 1844 election
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Presidential election of 1848
Free Soil party platform
1848 population rush into California
Definition of prohibiting as used in David Wilmot’s proviso
Characteristic of Gold Rush to California
Public protests of American’s war on Mexico
The Battle of the Alamo
Feature of the rise of southern nationalism during the late 1850s
Manifest destiny
Lincoln’s appeal to northern voters in the 1860 election
American settlement in Texas in 1820-18
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Californios
Reason for use of “Dred” in Dred Scott case
Political figures who kept Texas out of the 1844 presidential campaign
Statues atop the Capitol Building in DS that caused a controversy concerning slavery
Reason Jackson and Van Buren both rejected adding to Texas
Definiton of secede
“Fifty-four forty or fight”
Democrats and “reannexation of Texas” in 1844
Mexican War
Goals of James Polk as president
On Civil Disobedience
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
Compromise of 1850
Abraham Lincoln, Mexican War, proposed Congressional resolution
Gadsden Purchase
Two areas of industrial production, consequence of the 1850s market revolution
Popular sovereignty
California gold rush
1840-1860 immigration
John L. O’ Sullivan’s Democratic Review, key to the history of nations and the rise and fall of empires
Klondike Gold Rush
Characteristics of Irish experience on their arrival in the US in the 1840s and 1850s
Characteristics of ethnicity in California in the 1850s
Jefferson Davis’ objections to the original design of the Statue of Freedom in the Capitol dome
Reason slavery became more central to American politics in the 1840s
Mexican independence from Spain 1821
Sante Fe Trail