Cards in this guide (15)
Under this idea voters in a territory could decide whether or not to allow slavery in their state
Who warned that a civil war would result if any state left the Union
The strong feeling of loyalty to a state or section instead of to the whole country is called
In the Lincoln-Douglas debates Douglas tried to make Lincoln appear to be
In addition to Texas Americans were also interested in what
The document that said slavery would not be permitted in any area won from Mexico was the
The document that said slavery was not permitted in any area won
from Mexico was known as the Wilmot Proviso.
The high plateau between the coastal mountains and the Rockies is called
Who were the first white Americans to build permanent homes in Oregon
President Polk sent to try to buy California and New Mexico
What ordered every US government officer to help slave owners get their runaway slaves back
fugitive slave laws
fugitive slave act
The United states is the second largest producer of what
The United States was the second largest producer in oil. At the
end of 2013, it became the largest oil producer overtaking Saudi
Arabia.
Cotton became one of the main crops in the Southern economic system and the South became known as the
it is cotton kingdom (a+answer)
The land given to the united states was called what territory-
The land that was given to the United States was known as the
Indian Territory.
For who saving the union was more important than ending slavery
Daniel Webster thought that saving the Union was more important
than ending slavery. Webster was a senator from Massachusetts.
The what wanted to extend the missouri copromise line all the way to the pacific
The US wanted to extend the Missouri compromise line all the way
to the Pacific.