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Cotton Gin
This form of farming was wasteful due to excessive
cultivation of cotton which spoiled good land.
Plantation Agriculture
This was the main crop raised by
southern subsistence farmers.
Zachary TaylorEnded the Mexican-American
war, recognized the Rio Grande as the Tx. Border, and the US purchases California
and NM for 15 million.
Corn
The forced separation of slave families was
the theme of this novel.
John Tyler
This invention resulted in the re-invigoration of
slavery.
Spain, Russia, Britain and the United States
Won election of 1844
Missouri Compromise
Vice president of Harrison who became president after
Harrison’s death. Was known as a Democrat in
Whig’s clothing.
Harriet Tubman
Henry Clay was known as:
James K. Polk
The idea that Americans were destined by God to
spread democracy throughout the Americas
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Four nations that claimed Oregon Country
Popular Sovereignty
This proposed that slavery should not be allowed in any area purchased (or won) from Mexico. While it passed the House, it did not pass the Senate. It symbolized the burning issue of slavery.
Aroostook (Pork and Beans) War
In the Oregon treaty with Britain in 1846,
the northern boundary of the US was
established here.
Gold was discovered in California
Conductor of the underground
railroad
49th Parallel
Won victory at Buena Vista; “Old Rough and Ready;” future Whig
president.
William Lloyd Garrison
This conflict over the border of Maine was eventually solved by
compromise that gave each side new land.
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
The idea that whether or not a territory became a slave or free state would be decided by the people
living in that state.
Nativism
Stated that slaves could not testify on their own behalf, and were denied a jury trial. Also paid a judge more if a person were found to be a
slave.
Manifest Destiny
Publisher of “The Liberator,” this man
pledged his dedication to the immediate
abolition of slavery.
Wilmot Proviso
This party was a combination of anti-slavery
whigs and democrats. They did not want the expansion of slavery.
Free Soil Party
1848 – Sutter’s Mill
Great Nullifier
This was the central plank of the Know-Nothing party in the
1856 election.
William Walker
Author of “The Impending Crisis of the South” who
argued that non-slaveholding southern whites were hurt the
most by slave labor.
The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850
This admitted California as a free state and opened New Mexico and Utah to slavery based on popular
sovereignty
Matthew Perry
This had to be repealed to make way for popular
sovereignty and the Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850
Proposed that the state of Kansas have slavery regardless of whether the document was
approved or not.
Great Pacificator / Great Compromiser
John Calhoun was known as:
Hinton R. Helper
The man who opened Japan to the United
States.
Lecompton Constitution
Installed himself as president of
Nicaragua in 1856
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