Unit 6 key terms Crossword

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
he 1845 incorporation of the Republic of Texas into the United States of America
he 1845 incorporation of the Republic of Texas into the United States of America
s issued on August 8th, 1846 by Pennsylvania Democratic Congressman David Wilmot.
the peoples' rule, is part of the seven principles, that the authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives
a short-lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections
egan on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma
in an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South.
An abolitionist of the nineteenth century who sought to free the slaves by military force.
President of the United States; saved the Union during the American Civil War and emancipated the slaves
slavery could be excluded from territories of the United States by local legislation.
the only President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865
the location in Charleston, South Carolina where the first battle of the Civil War began on April 12, 1861.
an effort by armed abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859
any of the slave states that bordered the northern free states during the US Civil War.
presidential election to select the President and Vice President of the United States.
the Border War was a series of violent confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861
A political party that began in 1854 and is today one of the two major political parties in the United States.