Effects of Expansion

A law passed in 1820 dividing the Louisiana Territory into areas allowing Missouri to be a slave state, but Maine to be free.

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Dred Scott Decision

How did westward expansion worsen sectional rivalries between the north and the south?

• The south wanted more countries than north

• They didn’t want to worsen the balance between slave and union states

• They wanted more slave states to be made

• The union didn’t allow slave states to enter anymore

What were abolitionists fighting to accomplish?

• End expansion

• End British rule

• End Slavery

• End unfair taxes

A court decision that ruled that a man had to return to slavery despite having traveled to free states with his owner.

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Dred Scott Decision

Many Americans believed it was their responsibility to expand across the continent. What is this belief called?

• Era of Good Feelings

• Homestead Act

• Manifest Destiny

• Wagons West

The U.S. created a law that established how territories would be settled and new states added called _______________.

• Louisiana Purchase

• Oregon Treaty

• Industrial Revolution

• Northwest Ordinance

An escaped slave who became a conductor on the Underground Railroad

• Harriet Tubman

• John Brown

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Sojourner Truth

Which of the following was an effect of the Indian Removal Act?

• Settlers and Indians lived together peacefully.

• Settlers purchased land from the Indians.

• Indians willingly moved west of the Mississippi River.

• Indians were forced off their lands.

A law that stated that California was admitted to the Union as a free state and the Fugitive Slave Law was passed.

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Dred Scott Decision

What were the effects of the Mexican-American war?

• The Texas annexation in 1845

• The U.S. gained independence

• Mexico was damaged and economically ruined