British Royal Navy force formed to enforce the abolition of the slave trade in 1807

Antislavery newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison, who called for the immediate emancipation of all slaves.

Abolitionists society founded by William Lloyd Garrison, who advocated the immediate abolition of slavery.

  Vivid autobiography of the escaped slave and renowned abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

Prohibited debate or action on antislavery appeal

1.   Protective measure passed by Congressional Whigs, raising tariffs to pre-Compromise of 1833 rates.

Diplomatic row between the United States and Britain.

   American ship captured by a group of rebelling Virginia slaves. 

  Series of clashes between American and Canadian lumberjacks in the disputed territory of northern Maine, resolved when a permanent boundary was agreed upon in 1842. 

1.   Belief that the United States was destined by God to spread its “empire of liberty” across North America.

 Slogan adopted by mid-nineteenth century expansionists who advocated the occupation of Oregon territory, jointly held by Britain and the United States.

  Antislavery party that ran candidates in the 1840s and 1844 elections before merging with the Free Soil party.

  enhancing measure that lowered tariffs from 1842 levels thereby fueling trade and increasing Treasury receipts.

 Short-lived California republic, established by local American settlers who revolted against Mexico.

   Ended the war with Mexico.

   North Whigs who opposed slavery on moral grounds.

  Inflow of thousands of miners to Northern California after news reports of the discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill in January of 1848 had spread around the would by the end of that year.

1.   Informal network of volunteers that helped runaway slaves escape from the South and reach free-soil Canada.

Daniel Webster’s impassioned address urging the North to support of the Compromise of 1850.

Signed by Great Britain and the United States, it provided that the two nations would jointly protect the neutrality of Central America and that neither power would seek to fortify or exclusively control any future isthmian waterway.

Secret Franklin Pierce administration proposal to purchase or, that failing to wrest militarily Cuba from Spain.

 War between Britain and China over trading rights, particularly Britain’s desire to continue selling opium to Chinese traders. 

 Signed by the U.S. and China, it assured the United States the same trading concessions granted to other powers, greatly expanding America’s trade with the Chinese.

1.Ended Japan’s two-hundred year period of economic isolation, establishing an American consulate in Japan and securing American coaling rights in Japanese ports.

1.  Acquired additional land from Mexico $10 million to facilitate the construction of a southern transcontinental railroad.

  Anti-slavery tract, written by white Southerner Hilton R. Helper, arguing that non-slaveholding whites actually suffered most in a slave economy.

 Proposed Kansas constitution whose ratification was unfairly rigged so as to guarantee slavery in the territory. 

Supreme Court decision that extended federal protection to slavery by ruling that Congress did extended federal protection to slavery by ruling that Congress did not have the power to prohibit slavery in any territory. 

1.   Financial crash brought on by gold-fueled inflation, over-speculation, and excess grain production. 

Lowered duties on imports in response to a high Treasury surplus and pressure from Southern farmers. 

  Series of debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglass during the U.S. Senate Race in Illinois. 

Raised during one of the Lincoln-Douglas debates by Abraham Lincoln, who asked whether the Court of the people should decide the future of slavery in the territories. 

Declared that since slavery could not exist without laws to protect it, territorial legislatures, not the Supreme Court, would have the final say on the slavery question.