SSUSH 8 VOCABULARY

An agreement which restricted future slave states to the area below the 36 30 latitude line

• Manifest Destiny

• Missouri Compromise 1820

• Wilmot Proviso

• Compromise of 1850

A belief that the interests of your region are more important than the rest of the nation

• Popular Sovereignty

• Wilmot Proviso

• Annexation of Texas

• Sectionalism

Abolitionist who attacked the government at Harper's Ferry, VA in 1859

• John Brown

• Dred Scott

• Abraham Lincoln

• Wilmot Proviso

Area acquired from Britain (by President Polk) which settled disputes over which country controlled the territory

• Maine

• Missouri

• Oregon

• Texas

War which followed the annexation of Texas

• War of 1812

• Mexican-American War 1846-1848

• Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854

• Manifest Destiny

A bill which attempted to forbid slavery in the Mexican Cession lands and sparked heated debates in Congress

• Sectionalism

• Manifest Destiby

• Popular Sovereignty

• Wilmot Proviso

The discovery of a valuable substance influenced many Americans to settle in California

• Popular Sovereignty

• Sectionalism

• Fugitive Slave Laws

• Gold Rush

An agreement which allowed California to be a free state in exchange for some protections for th future of slavery

• Fugitive Slave Laws

• Sectionalism

• Missouri Compromise 1820

• Compromise of 1850

A concept which allowed for areas to vote over the issue of slavery

• Popular Sovereignty

• Sectionalism

• Annexation of Texas

• Manifest Destiny

Part of the Compromise of 1850 meant to punish those who plan for Blacks to escape enslavement

• Popular Sovereignty

• Fugitive Slave Laws

• Gold Rush

• Westward Migration