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Manifest Destiny
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| The idea that the nation had a God-given right to all of North America. |
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Mormon Trail
#MormonsMexico |
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| The 1,300- mile route they followed became known as this trail. |
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| The Pony Express was a mail service delivering messages, newspapers, and mail using relays of horse-mounted riders that operated between Missouri and California in the United States of America. |
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Republic of California
#OldLA |
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| The California Republic was an unrecognized breakaway state that for 25 days in 1846 militarily controlled an area north of San Francisco |
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| a system of ideas and ideals, especially one which forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy |
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Annexation of Texas
#CountryOfTexas |
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| The United States of America, which was a disgrace to the Union as the 28th state on December 29, 1845. |
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
#ByeByeMexicanWar |
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| 1848 agreement formally ending the Mexican-American War, included the sale of Mexican territory to the U.S. |
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California Gold Rush
#FastCash |
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| The mass migration to California of miner and businesspeople who made money off the miners. |
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Fugitive Slave Act
#EndSlavery |
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| Law was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. |
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Gadsden Purchase
#HelloNewMexico |
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| 1853 sale of Mexican territory in Arizona and New Mexico to the U.S. |
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| Participated in the Underground Railroad. Committed executions during the Pottawatomie Massacre. |
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Abraham Lincoln
#HeWasNumber1 |
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| 16th President, Republican |
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Freeport Doctrine
#WeStillNeedYou |
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| Stephen Douglas's doctrine that, in spite of the Dred Scott decision, slavery could be excluded from territories of the United States by local legislation. |
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Crittenden Compromise
#NoU |
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| an unsuccessful proposal to permanently enshrine slavery in the United States Constitution |
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| the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the South Carolina militia (the Confederate Army did not yet exist), and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army, that started the American Civil War. |
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| The longest and most famous trail used by the migrants was this trail. The 2,00-mile trail stretched from Independence, Missouri, to the rich farming lands of the Willamette Valley. |
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| The California Trail was an emigrant trail of about 3,000 mi across the western half of the North American continent from Missouri River towns to what is now the state of California |
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Mission System
#MissionImpossible |
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| The Spanish had effectively used this mission system in Mexico, and they expected it would work well in Texas. |
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Bear Flag Revolt
#CaliforniaState |
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| They made a crude flag for their new country that had a picture of a bear on it. Because of this flag, the uprising in California |
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Provisional
#GovermentMangement |
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| interim government or transitional government, is an emergency governmental authority set up to manage a political transition generally in the cases of new nations or following the collapse of the previous governing administration |
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Mexican-American War
#ChexMex |
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| When the United States declared war on Mexico on May 13, 1846. |
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Popular sovereignty
#WeThePeople |
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| The principle that the authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people. |
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“Fifty-four Forty or Fight”
#LongitudeAndLagitude |
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| phrase commonly used by extremists in the controversy with Great Britain over the Oregon country. The rights of the United States, they maintained, extended to the whole region, i.e., to lat. 54°40′N |
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
#ASlaveryTale |
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| Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. A story about the realities of slavery known to people in the North and becomes very popular in the North. It raises awareness of the reality of slavery. |
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
#PopularSovereignty |
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| Passed in 1854, established "Popular Sovereignty" in the western territories |
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Caning of Charles Sumner
#AttackOnTitan |
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| Representative Preston Brooks, a pro-slavery Democrat from South Carolina, used a walking cane to attack Senator Charles Sumner, an abolitionist Republican from Massachusetts, in retaliation |
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Dred Scott v. Sandford
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Sues the government for his freedom.
Dred Scott was born in 1800, Virginia. He was property of Peter Blow. Moved to St. Louis 1830. Purchased by John Emerson, brought to Illinois and then to Wisconsin. Scott is left by his master, sometimes for years at a time, during which he contracts out his labor. Emerson died in 1843, his wife inherits Scott. Since the Scotts had been held in free territory for extended periods of time, Scott sues for his freedom. the case eventually goes before the Supreme Court in 1857. |
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| Abolitionist John Brown leads a small group on a raid against a federal armory in |
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Confederate States of America
#NewGoverment |
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| the seceded states form a new independent government |
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Border States
#Stoplininig |
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| were slave states that did not declare a secession from the Union and did not join the Confederacy. |
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James K. Polk
#ManFistDenstitry |
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| becomes U.S. President (Democrat) favored annexation, expansion |
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Butterfield Trail
#ICantBeliveItsATrail |
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| The first answer to this need for communication was mail. A major southern route was the Butterfield Trail, over which a private stagecoach line ran. Starting in 1858 and lasting for two-and-a-half years, the Butterfield stages carried passengers and mail between St. Louis and San Francisco. |
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| Tejanos are the Hispanic residents of the state of Texas who are culturally descended from the original Spanish-speaking settlers of northern states. |
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| representing or supporting an extreme or progressive section of a political party. |
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Peace Convention
#WeDontWantNoSmoke |
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| Last ditch effort to compromise |
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Wilmot Proviso
#FreeBLacks |
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proposed law that would have
banned slavery in territory obtained from Mexico |
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Free-Soil Party
#FreeBlacksTillItsBackwards |
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| Opposed to expansion of slavery |
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Compromise of 1850
#ConjoinedStates |
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| a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican–American War. |
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Transcontinental railroad
#CrossCountry |
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| a 1,912-mile continuous railroad that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Council Bluffs, Iowa with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay. |
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Bleeding Kansas
#NotComfortable |
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| a series of violent civil confrontations that emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas. |
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Republican Party
#RightWing |
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| Made up of former Whigs, Democrats and Free Soilers. They don't want slavery to expand but they do not say that they want it nonexistent. |
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates
#GreatDebater |
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Debates were not common back then. It was unusual to campaign at all.
Debates bring the attention from media which raises the presence of Lincoln. |
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Election of 1860
#LincolnHaters |
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| The South all voted against Lincoln but he still won. He had significantly less electoral votes but he still won. |
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| President of Mississippi is the |
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