2025 Time Period 5 Vocab Quiz

The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US across the American continents was both justified and inevitable.

• Nativism

• Manifest Destiny

• Free soil movement

• "Bleeding Kansas"

His campaign slogan in the Election of 1844 was, "Fifty-four Forty or Fight!"?

• Zachary Taylor

• Stephen A. Douglas

• George Fitzhugh

• James Polk

An 1842 treaty resolving several border issues between the United States and the British North American colonies, particularly a dispute over the location of the northern Maine-New Brunswick border.

• Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

• Adams-Onis treaty

• Webster-Ashburton Treaty

• Oregon Treaty

1848. Awarded as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo after the Mexican American War. U.S. paid $15 million for 525,000 square miles.

• Mexican Cession

• Oregon Territory

• Gadsden Purchase

• Florida

The idea that the people of a territory should determine for themselves whether or not to permit slavery.

• Nativism

• Secession

• Authoritarianism
• Popular sovereignty

This Included: (1) California admitted as free state, (2) territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico, (3) resolution of Texas-New Mexico boundaries, (4) federal assumption of Texas debt, (5) slave trade abolished in DC, and (6) new fugitive slave law?

• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska-Act

• Monroe Doctrine
• Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

A novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852 which portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral. It was banned across the south and blamed for helping to start the Civil War.

• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Aunt Phyllis's Cabin

• Sociology for the South

• Cannibals All!

Allowed people the people in western territories the right to choose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty. As a result of this, the Republican Party was formed.

• Wilmot Proviso

• Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Compromise of 1850

1857 Supreme Court decision that stated slaves were not citizens: slaves were property no matter where they were living, making the Missouri Compromise of 1820 unconstitutional.

• Dred Scott v. Sandford
• Commonwealth v. Hunt

• Worcester v. Georgia

• Marbury v. Madison

3rd party established in the 1850s that was anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant. Originally known as the "Supreme Order of the Star Spangled Banner".

• Anti-Masonic Party

• Liberty Party

• Know Nothing Party

• Workingmen's Party