APUSH Period 5: Chapter 13

Westward American Expansion, "God chose us to expand, it's our destiny"

James K Polk's cry, meant that US should occupy all of the Oregon territory

Accused Polk of waging a war of conquest to add new slave states

A ban on slavery in any territories gained from war, almost passed Congress

Depicted slavery as a threat to republicanism and held the ideal of a free-holder society

People arriving in California, 1849, after gold discovered

Planters allowed to take slavery property into new territories

Fugitive Slave Act, allows California into the union as a free state, organized Utah and New Mexico into territories

Small desert wasteland purchased from Mexico to build the transcontinental railroad

Urged Franklin Pierce to sieze Cuba from Spain, northerns accuse southerns of wanting to expand American slavery into the Caribbean

Makes territories Kansas and Nebraska, decided if free or slave state by popular soverignity

Originated from an Anti-Immigrant/Catholic movements, wanted to prohibit further immigration

Civil War in Kansas between pro/anti-slavery, caused by popular soverignity

Slave sues for freedom after his master dies, told that blacks weren't citizens, therefore cannot sue

A territory's residents could exclude slavery by not adopting laws to protect it

Selected by Democrats, slave owners and expanionist, "54 40 or Fight" cry, wanted to annex Texas and Oregon, won his election by a narrow margin

The foremost black abolitionist, attended 1st free-soil convention, spoke out regularly after his escape from slavery in Maryland

Nominated by Whigs, Louisiana slave owners, fully committed to protecting Southern slavery

Advocated for popular soverignity, Illinois wanted to open unorganized territory for transcontinental railroad

Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, boosts opposition to the Slave Trade

Murdered 5 at Pottawatomie, Kansas, starts Bleeding Kansas

Republican candidate for 1860 election, made his name by debating Douglas, won election, Southern states secedes after he wins with no Southerners voting for him