Path to the Civil War

term used to describe a movement that advocated territorial expansion and industrial growth in the name of patriotism

• Young America

• War Hawk

• Federalist

• Republican

defeat and killing of American rebels in San Antonio in 1835

• The Alamo

• Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Gonzalez

• Goliad

a doctrine in support of territorial expansion based on the beliefs that population growth demanded territorial expansion, that God supported american expansion and national expansion equaled expansion of freedom

• Manifest Destiny

• God Wills It

• To Infinity and Beyond

• Westernism

Mexico relinquished its claims to Texas and ceded an additional 500,000 square miles to the United States

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Treaty of Ghent

• Treaty of Paris

• Treaty of Versailles

the concept that the settlers of a newly organized territory have the right to decide through voting whether to allow slavery

• Popular Sovereignty

• Manifest Destiny

• Federalism

• Republicanism

were opposed to the extension of slavery into the western territories

• Republicans

• Democrats

• Whigs

• Know-Nothing

anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic party

• Know-Nothing

• Republican

• Democrat

• Whig

a series of 5 congressional statutes that temporarily calmed the sectional crisis

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Crittenden Compromise

made it easier for slave owners to recapture runaway slaves

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Dred Scott Case

• Raid on Harper's Ferry

• Compromise of 1850

split the Louisiana Purchase into 2 territories and allowed its settlers to accept or reject slavery by popular sovereignty

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Crittenden Compromise