Came to America to escape famine

Florida cession includes---

Path of thousands of settlers westward to the fertile Willamette Valley.

Religious group founded during the "Second Great Awakening" by Joseph Smith in 1830.

Occurrence of statehood in 1845 following independence from Mexico.

Land purchased from Mexico in 1853 to build a railroad connecting the South to the Pacific Coast.

1803 purchase of land from France that doubled the size of the United States.

People coming to America flee political unrest in their home country.

Tendency for people living in a particular region to develop their own unique way of life.

Law that allowed Southern slave owners to hunt down escaped slaved in the North.

California was admitted as a free state in exchange for the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law.

1854 law that allowed popular sovereignty to decide whether a state will be free.

Resulted in an American victory and established the Rio Grande border with Mexico.

The purchase of much of the southwest territory of the United States through the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo.

Critics of the Kansas-Nebraska Act founded this organization to stop the spread of slavery.

Supreme court ruling that declared slaves were not viewed as citizens, but as property.