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Unit 6 Key Terms Manifest Destiny Oregon Trail
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| Unit 6 Key Terms
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Manifest Destiny
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Oregon Trail
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James K. Polk
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“Fifty-four Forty or Fight”
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Annexation of Texas
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Mexican-American War
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Wilmot Proviso
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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Popular sovereignty
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Free-Soil Party
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California Gold Rush
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Compromise of 1850
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Fugitive Slave Act
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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Transcontinental railroad
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Gadsden Purchase
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Bleeding Kansas
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John Brown
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Caning of Charles Sumner
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Republican Party
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Abraham Lincoln
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Dred Scott v. Sandford
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates
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Freeport Doctrine
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Harpers Ferry
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Election of 1860
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Crittenden Compromise
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Confederate States of America
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Jefferson Davis
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Fort Sumter
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Border States
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The idea that Americans had a God-given right to conquer and civilize North America
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One of the routes that “overlanders” used to move to the West
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Known as the “expansion president,” he was president when the United States gained the Oregon Territory and fought the Mexican-American War
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Slogan of people who felt the United States should fight England for all of the Oregon Territory rather than share it
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Action that made Texas part of the United States and angered Mexico
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Conflict between the United States and Mexico caused by the United States’ desires for Texas and California and started by a border dispute in Texas
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Suggested law (that did not pass) that called for all land won from Mexico to be free from slavery
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This ended the Mexican-American War and resulted in the Mexican Cession, which gave the United States was is now the American southwestern states
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The idea that states should decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery
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Formed with the platform that slavery should not expand west and preserve the West for white people
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Event that caused the population of California to increase dramatically and ask to be admitted as a free state
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Created by Henry Clay, this deal included California being admitted as a free state and the Fugitive Slave Act being passed
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This law forced northerners to aid in slave-catching and divided the country
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Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, this caused many northerners to hate slavery
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This proposed structure would unite the West to the rest of the country
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This strip of land was bought from Mexico for the construction of a transcontinental railroad
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This law proposed using popular sovereignty to settle Midwestern states but resulted in violence
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This event involved pro-slavery forces and abolitionist forces fighting over control of their state
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White abolitionist who killed slave owners in Kansas and later tried to start an armed slave rebellion
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Event in which a Congressman almost killed a Senator in the U.S. Capitol
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Formed with the platform that slavery could not expand west, took power with the election of Abraham Lincoln
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Won the Election of 1860 and led the country during the Civil War
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This ruled the slaves were not citizens and that slavery could not be banned in any territory
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Series of talks between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas that made Lincoln a popular candidate for president two years later
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Idea that, even if slavery could not be banned, western territories did not have to pass laws to protect it
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Site of John Brown’s attempt to raid a federal arsenal and start an armed slave rebellion in the South
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This event caused southern states to secede from the United States
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This last ditch effort to prevent the Civil War, by bringing back the Missouri Compromise line and extending it to the West Coast, that failed
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The country that southern states established after Lincoln’s election
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President of the Confederate States of America
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Site of the first shots fired by the South against the North, started the Civil War
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States that had slavery but remained part of the Union and were vital to Lincoln’s ability to conduct the Civil War
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