Manifest Destiny and The Road to Civil War Quiz Review

ECE U.S. History

Manifest Destiny and the Road to the Civil War

Review Sheet

Term, Names, Events

• Gold Rush

• Texas

• Stephen Austin

• Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

• Oregon Territory

• “Fifty-four Forty or Fight”

• James K. Polk

• John Slidell

• Rio Grande, Nueces River

• Mexican War

• John C. Fremont

• California; Bear Flag Republic

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Mexican Cession

• Wilmot Proviso

• Uncle Tom’s Cabin

• Compromise of 1850

  • John C. Calhoun

  • Daniel Webster

  • The Slave Power

  • Henry Clay

• The Free Soil Party

• Popular Sovereignty

• The Fugitive Slave Law

• Kansas Nebraska Act

  • Stephen Douglas

  • Cotton Whigs

  • Bleeding Kansas

  • Border ruffians

  • John Brown

• Nativism

• Know-Nothings

• Republican Party

• Election of 1856

• Dred Scott vs. Sandford

• Roger Taney

• The Lecompton Constitution

• Panic of 1857

• Lincoln Douglas Debates

• Freeport Doctrine

• John Brown’s Raid

• The Election of 1860

• Abraham Lincoln