54. Using the map ABOVE the term, locate the following places by entering the correct number in the box.

    Rocky Mountains



    55. Rio Grande River



    56. Nueces River



    57. Appalachian Mountains



    58. Mississippi River



    59. Trans-Appalachian West



    60. Using the map ABOVE the term, locate the following places by entering the correct number in the box.

    Which line of latitude was used by James K. Polk as a rallying cry for manifest destiny used by the Democratic Party in the election of 1844?



    61. Where 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"?



    62. Which free state was added to the United States as a result of the Missouri Compromise of 1820?



    63. What area was ceded to the United States by way of a war that ended in 1848 with the Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo?



    64. The United States peacefully decided to end its territorial conflict with Great Britain in 1846 by deciding to compromise at this, the 49th parallel.



    65. This 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.



    66. According to the Compromise of 1850, the slave trade was abolished here.



    67. Which line had served as the separation between free and slave states until it was repealed by the Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854 and the Dred Scott Decision of 1857?



    68. Using the map ABOVE the term, locate the following places by entering the correct number in the box.

    The proposed railroad (on the map), runs eastward and was to terminate in this state, represented by Stephen Douglas.



    69. 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.



    70. By terms of the Compromise of 1850, these areas could decided the issue of slavery by using popular sovereignty. Enter the number of ONLY ONE of the two correct areas.



    71. Which state was responsible for provided the Pro Slavery men who fraudulently influenced the election of a state legislature in Kansas, and who later sacked the Free Soil town of Lawrence?