Major overland trail for migrant families who wanted to settle out West

• California Gold Rush

• Lewis and Clark Trail

• Oregon Trail

• Missouri Route

The rapid influx of migrants from across the world seeking riches in 1848

• California Oil Boom
• Texas Silver Rush
• Alaska Diamond Rush
• California Gold Rush

An antislavery political party formed in 1840 that helped place slavery at the center of national political debates

• Republican Party

• Liberty Party

• American Party

• Know-Nothing Party

An political party formed in the 1840s in the Northeast that was anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant and supported workers rights against business owners, who were perceived to support immigration as a way to keep wages low

• Republican Party

• Liberty Party

• American (Know-Nothing) Party

• Democratic Party

An political party formed in 1854 that was committed to stopping the expansion of slavery and that advocated for economic development and internal improvements

• Republican Party

• Liberty Party

• American (Know-Nothing) Party

• Democratic Party

The phrase manifest destiny refers to the belief that

• the U.S. should be two separate nations

• the U.S. should abolish slavery

• the U.S. had a God-given right to expand across the entire continent

• the U.S. should trade with Mexico and Canada

Conflict that lasted from 1846-1848 that resulted in the transfer of one million square miles of land to the U.S. states, reigniting the debate about the expansion of slavery into the West

• Mexican-American War

• Bleeding Kansas

• Civil War

• John Brown's Raid

A federal law that allowed enslavers to capture enslaved people who had fled from a slave state by mandating that local governments, even in free states, seize and return them; largely ignored by Northerners

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Fugitive Slave Act of 1793

• Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

• Compromise of 1850

A federal law that required northern citizens to help catch runaways and made it difficult for alleged runaways to receive a fair trial; provoked widespread anger in the North, and the backlash against it enraged Southerners

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Fugitive Slave Act of 1793

• Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

• Compromise of 1850

A series of acts admitting California as a free state, banning the slave trade in the District of Columbia, referring the decision of slavery in Utah and New Mexico to popular sovereignty, strengthening the Fugitive Slave Law, and resolving Texas' border and debt

• Coercive Acts

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act