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Amer. Hist. Unit 4

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Manifest Destiny The belief that the U.S. was to expand to the Pacific Ocean and into Mexican territory.
confederacy The southern states that protected and recognized slavery and saw each state as sovereign and independent.
Gold Rush Migration to California from 1848-1850 searching for gold
Secession Formal withdrawal of a state from the union.
Popular Sovereighnty rights of a territory to determine if had or didn't have slavery.
Fifty Four Forty or Fight refers to latitude 54(degrees) 40. the agreement in 1846 extand the boundary with Canada along the 49th parallel westward from Rocky Mts. to Puget Sound
Wilmot Proviso Amendment that California, Utah, and New Mexico would not be slave states. This divided Congress.
Fugitive Slave Act alleged fugitives were not allowed a trial, all that was needed was a statement by a slave owner to return the slave.
Free Soil Party Policitial party which opposed the expanding of slavery into the territories.
John Brown An abolitionist that fought slavery, a symbol of the moral issue of slavery. He was hanged for treason in 1859.
Kansas-Nebraska Act Became law in 1854-divided the area into 2 territories and created popular sovereignty for both.
Compromise of 1850 California admitted as a free state, Utah and New Mexico territories decide about slavery, Texas-New Mexico boundary resolved, sale of slaves in D.C. banned, but slavery could continue, People in free states were to help capture and return escaped slaves
Harriet Tubman A conductor on the Underground railroad, helped slaves escape to the North.
Jefferson Davis Elected President of the Confederacy, February 4, 1861.
Abraham Lincoln elected President in 1860 beleived slavery was immoral
Stephen Douglas author of Popular sovereignty and defeated Lincoln for a senate seat.
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