Unit 6 Key Terms Crossword

1.the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
The route over which settlers traveled to Oregon in the 1840s and 1850s; trails branched off from it toward Utah and California.
A political leader of the nineteenth century
was the 1845 incorporation of the Republic of Texas into the United States of America
proposed an American law to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War.
an American abolitionist who believed in and advocated armed insurrection as the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States.
A political party that began in 1854 and is today one of the two major political parties in the United States.
was Stephen Douglas's doctrine that, in spite of the Dred Scott decision, slavery could be excluded from territories of the United States by local legislation.
began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California
was a short-lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 and 1852
the sovereignty of the peoples' rule, is part of the seven principles, that the authority of a state and its government
was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.
the Border War was a series of violent confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861
A set of laws, passed in the midst of fierce wrangling between groups favoring slavery and groups opposing it
any of the slave states that bordered the northern free states during the US Civil War.
a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia
the location in Charleston, South Carolina where the first battle of the Civil War began on April 12, 1861.
was an American politician who served as the only President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865.
known as the Mexican War in the United States and in Mexico as the American intervention in Mexico, was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States from 1846 to 1848.
was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers.