Manifest Destiny and Crisis

Manifest Destiny and Sectional Crisis

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Chapter 13

How did Polk use the same tactic and get the same result by different means in Oregon and Texas?

What was the Wilmot Proviso? What brought about its introduction, and what arguments were advanced in its favor?

Explain the following statement: Expansion brought sectional antagonism to the boiling point, split the Democratic party in the late 1840's, and set the nation on the path to the Civil War.

Assess the moral arguments and political actions of those opposed to the spread of slavery in the context of the following:

Mexican War

Missouri Compromise

Compromise of 1850

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Dred Scott Decision

1. Maria Monk 2. Know-Nothing, or American, party 3. George Henry Evans 4. Commonwealth v. Hunt (1842) 5. Spanish missions and presidios 6. Stephan F. Austin 7. American empresarios in Texas 8. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna 9. The Alamo 10. Sam Huston 11. Overland Trail 12. The Donner party 13. John Tyler 14. John C. Calhoun 15. Henry Clay 16. James K. Polk ("Young Hickory") 17. John L. O'Sullivan and manifest destiny 18. Zachary Taylor (Old Rough and Ready") 19. Winfield Scott 20. John C. Fremont 21. The Bear Flag Republic 22. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 23. Wilmot Proviso 24. Squatter or popular sovereignty 25. Martin Van Buren and the Free-Soil party 26. Doctrines of free soil and free labor 27. William H. Seward and irrepressible conflict 28. Popular (squatter) sovereignty 29. Daniel Webster 30. Henry Clay's omnibus bill 31. The Compromise of 1850 32. Millard Fillmore 37. Elizabeth C. Stanton 33. Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 34. personal-liberty laws 35. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin 36. American (or Know-Nothing) party 37. Stephan A. Douglas 38. The Kansas-Nebraska Act 39. Gadsden Purchase 40. John A. Quitman, William Walker, and filibustering 41. Ostend Manifesto 42. "Bleeding Kansas" 43. Lecompton versus Topeka legislature 44. Lecompton constitution 45. Sack of Lawrence Kansas 46. Pottawatomie massacre 47. Charles Sumner and Preston Brooks 48. John C. Fremont 49. James Buchanan 50. Roger B. Taney 51. Dred Scott v. Sandford 52. Lincoln-Douglas debates 53. Douglas's Freeport Doctrine 54. John Brown's 55. Harpers Ferry 56. Panic of 1857 57. John C. Brackenridge 58. John Bell 59. The Constitutional Union party

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