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23 Cards in this Set
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James K. Polk won the nickname ________________ because of his support for Andrew Jackson who was known as Old Hickory.
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"Young Hickory" |
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James K. Polk, in his presidential campaign, said that ________should be admitted into the Union.
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Texas |
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The belief that the United States should expand its borders to the Pacific Ocean is called _______________________. |
Manifest Destiny |
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The Mexican War was a war between the ______________and _______________. |
United States and Mexico |
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_________________ provided more than 30,000 volunteers for The Mexican War. |
Tennessee |
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Andrew Jackson and his wife, Rachel, were buried at the ________________. |
Hermitage |
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The Gold Rush took place in _______________. |
California |
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____________ and James Marshall were the first ones to discover gold and begin the Gold Rush. |
John Sutter |
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People who removed gold from a mine were called ____________. |
miners |
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The nickname for people who went to California to find gold were the ________________ because they went there in 1849. |
Forty-niners |
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The Compromise 0f 1850 was drawn up because of the fight of statehood over ______________.
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California |
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In The Compromise of 1850 the Southerners agreed to support California as a ___________state if the North agreed to the Fugitive Slave Act.
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free |
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What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
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Agreement that the North would return escaped slaves to the South. |
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The ______________________ proposed that the people in the South should decide whether to allow slavery. This supported an idea called ______________. |
Popular sovereignty |
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Dred Scott was born in ______________.
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Virginia |
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______________________________ separated the United States into ___________ and ________ states. |
Free slave |
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It took Dred Scott ______ years to take his case to the Supreme Court. |
11 |
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Why did Dred Scott feel that he should be free? |
Dred Scott felt that he should be free because he had moved, with his owner, from a slave state to a free state.
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The _______________ ruled that Dred Scott was not a ____________, therefore he could not be granted his freedom. |
citizen |
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The _____________________ eventually caused the ___________. |
Dred Scott Case Civil War |
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How did Dred Scott eventually become free? |
Answer 1 |
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What happened to the Native Americans during the Gold Rush? |
Answer 2 |
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