| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Westward American Expansion, "God chose us to expand, it's our destiny" | Manifest Destiny | 95%
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| Civil War in Kansas between pro/anti-slavery, caused by popular soverignity | Bleeding Kansas | 41%
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| 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 | Abraham Lincoln | 36%
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| The foremost black abolitionist, attended 1st free-soil convention, spoke out regularly after his escape from slavery in Maryland | Frederick Douglass | 32%
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| 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 | James K Polk | 27%
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| Advocated for popular soverignity, Illinois wanted to open unorganized territory for transcontinental railroad | Stephen Douglas | 27%
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| Makes territories Kansas and Nebraska, decided if free or slave state by popular soverignity | Kansas-Nebraska Act | 23%
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| Small desert wasteland purchased from Mexico to build the transcontinental railroad | Gadsden Purchase | 18%
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| Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, boosts opposition to the Slave Trade | Harriet Beecher Stowe | 18%
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| A ban on slavery in any territories gained from war, almost passed Congress | Wilmot Proviso | 18%
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| People arriving in California, 1849, after gold discovered | Forty-Niners | 14%
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| Murdered 5 at Pottawatomie, Kansas, starts Bleeding Kansas | John Brown | 14%
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| Originated from an Anti-Immigrant/Catholic movements, wanted to prohibit further immigration | Know-Nothing Party | 14%
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| Fugitive Slave Act, allows California into the union as a free state, organized Utah and New Mexico into territories | 1850 Compromise | 9%
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| James K Polk's cry, meant that US should occupy all of the Oregon territory | Fifty-Four Forty or Fight! | 9%
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| Accused Polk of waging a war of conquest to add new slave states | Conscience Whigs | 0%
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| Slave sues for freedom after his master dies, told that blacks weren't citizens, therefore cannot sue | Dred Scott vs. Sanford | 0%
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| A territory's residents could exclude slavery by not adopting laws to protect it | Freeport Doctrine | 0%
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| Depicted slavery as a threat to republicanism and held the ideal of a free-holder society | Free-Soil Movement | 0%
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| Urged Franklin Pierce to sieze Cuba from Spain, northerns accuse southerns of wanting to expand American slavery into the Caribbean | Ostend Manifesto | 0%
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| Planters allowed to take slavery property into new territories | Slavery Follows the Flag | 0%
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| Nominated by Whigs, Louisiana slave owners, fully committed to protecting Southern slavery | Zachary Taylor | 0%
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