Which compromise admitted California as a free state, passed a stricter fugitive slave law, and abolished the slave trade in Washington D.C.?
Which principle did John Marshall and the Supreme Court create in the case of Marbury v. Madison?
What ended slavery throughout the entire U.S.?
Which side had the better field commanders during the Civil War?
Whose expedition was critical in understanding the territory acquired by President Jefferson in the west?
Who murdered pro-slavery supporters during Bleeding Kansas?
Which political party's platform in 1860 included: limits on the expansion of slavery in the territories, a protective tariff, and the completion of a railroad to the Pacific coast?
Why did most people head west along the Oregon Trail?
Who was the editor of the Liberator and an outspoken abolitionism in the fight against slavery?
Why did Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
Why was there a massive migration to California in 1849?
Who was the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Which doctrine states that the voters of a territory should be able to choose whether to be a free or slave territory?
Lincoln waited for a major victory that came in which battle before he issued his Emancipation Proclamation?
Who became known as the “Moses” of the Underground Railroad because she freed more than 300 slaves by sneaking them out of the South?
President Polk’s campaign slogan, “Fifty-four Forty or Fight,” marked the northern boundary of the Oregon Country and British Canada, but what where was the boundary finally set after the election?
John O'Sullivan's 1840 announcement that Providence (God) wanted the United States to settle North America from the Atlantic to the Pacific has become known as what?
Why did the U.S. place few restrictions on immigration in the mid to late 1800s?
Where did the Civil War begin on April 12, 1861?
Between 1847 and 1853 nearly 16,000 Mormons traveled west to which territory?
Which Supreme Court case ruled that, under the protection of the 5th Amendment, a slave could be taken into any territory and remain in slavery?
What did the First Battle of Bull Run prove to both sides about the war?
After Abraham Lincoln was elected president, the Southern states tried to break away from the union, which is known as what?
Who was the president of the Confederate States of America?
In 1803 the national territory nearly doubled as a result of what?
