Where is the Mississippi River, the major waterway in the United States in which many western and southern farmers moved their crops to market?
\nWhere is the Nueces River, Mexico's claim to the official border with the United States after the annexation of Texas in 1845?
\nWhere is the Rio Grande River, President Polk's claim as the official border with Mexico prior to the outbreak of the Mexican-American War in 1846.
\nToday the United States stretches westward to the Pacific Ocean. However, after the American War for Independence ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1783, American farmers who lived in the newly acquired Trans-Appalachian West were considered westerners. Where is the Trans-Appalachian West?
Which line of latitude was used by the supporters of candidate James K. Polk and the Democratic Party as a rallying cry for the fulfillment of manifest destiny in the election of 1844?
\nWhat area was ceded to the United States by way of a war that ended in 1848 with the Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo?
\nWhich free state was created and added to the United States, in order to keep a North/South balance in the Senate, as a result of the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
\nThis slave state was added to the union in 1820, even though it resides entirely north of the 36 degree 30 minute latitude line, an area designated as free territory.
\nThe United States peacefully decided to end its territorial conflict with Great Britain in 1846 by deciding to compromise at this, the 49th parallel.
\nWhere was the disputed territory that caused the United States to go to war with Mexico after President Polk claimed that "American blood had been shed on American soil"?
By terms of the Compromise of 1850, the people living in these areas would be able to decide the issue of slavery by using popular sovereignty. Although there are two correct answers to this question, enter the number of ONLY ONE of these areas.
The proposed railroad (on the map), was to have its eastern terminus in this state, represented by Senator Stephen Douglas. This was a significant economic reason that Douglas proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, in order to organize the territory to the west. Where is this state?
The American Civil War can be said to have started five years before the official start of the war. Pro slave and Free Soil settlers battled with and killed one another here in 1856.
We know from the textbook and video that pro-slavery men from these states were responsible for the voter fraud in the election of a territorial legislature in Kansas. Not only did they elect pro-slavery candidates, responsible for creating the pro-slavery Lecompton Constitution, but they also attacked "free soilers" and sacked the town of Lawrence, initiating violence on both sides that came to be knows as "Bleeding Kansas"? Although there are two states that are correct answers for this question, choose ONLY one and enter its number in the box below.