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

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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