AMSCO APUSH Unit 5 Vocab Quiz

The idea that it was the fate and God's plan for the US to extend from coast to coast

• Wilmot Proviso

• Manifest Destiny
• Kansas Nebraska Act

• Ostend Manifesto

the president most closely associated with Manifest Destiny - his campaign slogan was 54'40 or fight (for Oregon) and he sent troops and persuaded Congress to declare war on Mexico

• Abraham Lincoln
• Zachary Taylor

• James Buchanan

• James K. Polk

example of a government policy that increased westward expansion - it promised essentially free land to settlers who would live on and improve the land for 5 years

• Free Soil Movement

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Homestead Act

• Morrill Land Grant Act

Example of a policy passed by the gov't that led to increased westward migration - it connected East to West and significantly decreased time and expense to get to the west

• Transcontinental Railroad
• Louisiana Purchase
• Oregon Trail
• Erie Canal

This treaty ended Mexican-American War

• Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842)

• Clayton-Bulwer Treaty (1850)

• Gadsden Purchase (1853)

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)

Part of a funding bill for the Mexican-American War and passed by the House but not the Senate; it would have made it so that slavery was not allowed in any territory won from the Mexican War

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Wilmot Proviso
• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

Terms of this legislation included: California admitted as a free state, other territories gained from Mexico organized based on popular sovereignty, slave trade abolished in Washington, D.C., stronger fugitive slave law

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Wilmot Proviso
• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

Terms of this legislation included: organized the Kansas and Nebraska territories based on popular sovereignty; essentially repeals the Missouri Compromise, leads to violence in Kansas and the formation of the Republican Party

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Wilmot Proviso
• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

1857 Supreme Court decision that stated slaves were not citizens: slaves were property no matter where they were living and the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional

• Marbury v. Madison
• Dred Scott v. Sandford
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Plessy v. Ferguson

an attempt to arm slaves for a rebellion; the leader is captured, tried and executed

• Nat Turner's Rebellion

• John Brown's Bleeding Kansas

• Harriet Tubman's Underground Railroad

• John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry